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Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

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Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

#121
What if Google took your 16 year old email address? Corporate cloud is an absolute trap. A prison. You cannot trust these companies with your important digital belongings.

Free, libre, open source software, peer to peer networks, and citizen run communications infrastructure are the only viable way forward if we don't to live in a rental society where none of your belongings belong to you, not even your identity.

Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

#122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fucking hell, I hate this word with a passion and how it's used as a cheap insult, but really "cuck" is the only thing that springs to mind. Someone takes a dump all over you but not even that makes you less eager to say panegyrics about them? Very strange.

Maybe he just doesn't care that much. Inconvenienced, evidently, but to stake a personal dislike towards a human being for this seems unwarranted.

Did you even read the article? In his own tweet he says he's "super pissed", how could you possibly conclude that "maybe he doesn't care that much"?

Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

#124
post #28

*Never build your house on someone else's land". Episode 237.

By that logic, Uber and Instagram and WhatsApp should not have been started, as the iOS App Store is unequivocally "someone else's land", and these services could only exist as native apps.

Instagram has a web interface. You can use it entirely without an app. And there is no reason Uber or WhatsApp couldn't work on the web.

Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

#125

What if Google took your 16 year old email address? Corporate cloud is an absolute trap. A prison. You cannot trust these companies with your important digital belongings. Free, libre, open source software, peer to peer networks, and citizen run communications infrastructure are the only viable way forward if we don't to live in a rental society where none of your belongings belong to you, not even your identity.

What about ARIN and IANA? Eventually there is some central authority associated with the internet, IP address blocks and DNS root servers.

Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

#127
post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe he just doesn't care that much. Inconvenienced, evidently, but to stake a personal dislike towards a human being for this seems unwarranted.

Did you even read the article? In his own tweet he says he's "super pissed", how could you possibly conclude that "maybe he doesn't care that much"?

Because I can differentiate between being upset over something, especially something that is a minor inconvenience relative to other things that can occur in a man's life, but not being upset to the extent where I dislike those responsible for it.

I mean seriously, stop for a moment and think if "I don't dislike the guy who runs the company that inconvenienced me and I think things may turn out okay" warrants the association that the person who feels like this would be sexually gratified by his wife sleeping with another man.

Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

#128
A part of me really hopes that Musks' seemingly-incompetent handling of Twitter does sort of legitimize Mastodon (and other Fediverse projects) to the public.

I set up a mastodon server a few weeks ago out of boredom, and I finally get the appeal of tweeting, and have been using it regularly, and it makes me happy that I get to own all the hardware powering it.

Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

#129

From another article [0]: > Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he's interested in Musk's electric cars and space developments. He said that this experience with X hasn't tainted his opinion of Musk or his relationship too much with X as a platform. He's holding out hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X, but like many users, he's struggling to adjust to the rebranding. Vaught still refers to the…

> Just now, Twitter/X just ripped it away. Super pissed. Who’s going to tell him that Twitter/X is controlled by a person who’s name is Elon Musk?

Selective memory

Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

#130
post #126

The post includes innecessary resentment against billionaire owned platforms, sadly it does not take the opportunity to promote Mastodon or other technologies with that post success.

>billionaire owned platforms

Do not refer to them as 'billionaires' since they're oligarchs. I have expunged the word 'billionaire' from my vocabulary.

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