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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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

noman-land wrote: post #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.

I am assuming they will take my 19 yo email address. So I am moving my logins slowly to my own domain.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

javajosh wrote: post #125
noman-land wrote: post #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.

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

That’s why we normally have faith in the rule of law, so that big players cannot just rip the livelihood out of smaller ones.

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

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Post by rectang »

terribleperson wrote: post #117
nullfield wrote: post #81

This is the consequence of lack of self-sovereignty, along with the lack of an agreed universal naming system. That said, I’m not sure that first-come-first-wins is simultaneously fair, in such a universal environment. Nor, really, do I want it to be a “whoever can pay most gets the desirable names”, like DNS works. I don’t have a better solution right now, but acknowledge that there’s a problem with the combination/…

A mandatory random set of numbers at the end of every name is an approach I quite like. Not only does it directly make every name available to 10,000 people, it should reduce the demand for these desirable names in the first place since you have to share them with thousands of other people. Platforms should also consider accommodations for trademark holders. Most have some sort of program, but it seems to be a mess.…

I like that you're making concrete proposals and the append-random-numbers approach is thought-provoking.

Removing the numbers for trademark holders is an imperfect solution though, though, since multiple entities can hold the same mark so long as they are in different markets.

A critical test for trademark violation is "does it cause confusion in the marketplace?" and if nobody confuses Oracle Software with HiSpec Oracle trailer tires or Oracle Lighting, they're all allowed to hold a trademark on "Oracle". But if you're talking about a namespace where "there can be only one", which of the entities who holds a registered trademark wins?

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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

javajosh wrote: post #125
noman-land wrote: post #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.

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

Not in my threat model. But yes at some point you could get offlined completely or your internet heavily sensored if you live in a country that does that

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

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Post by wslh »

Jerry2 wrote: post #130
wslh wrote: 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.

Yes, oligarch is a precise term.

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

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Post by jbigelow76 »

maximinus_thrax wrote: post #3

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…

Reading stuff like this makes me think we are seeing Gen-X's version of Donald Trump, and it worries me.

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

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Post by praisewhitey »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #51

When this was initially announced I saw multiple people posting on Twitter how the the non-Musk version of the company would also occasionally take over short name accounts and give them to government officials and large corporations. Some of the replies when @x and @music got transferred were also complaining about not being compensated monetarily, which honestly seems like a bizarre expectation. Elon paid $44 billi…

In 2015 twitter changed favorites to likes, but since the username "likes" was taken, the url to view your likes switched from twitter.com/favorites to twitter.com/i/likes (later on they changed it to twitter.com/username/likes)

https://twitter.com/likes

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

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Post by anonymousiam »

noman-land wrote: post #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.

It's not your email address unless the part after the @ belongs to you.

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

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Post by klabb3 »

Jibbedeyeah wrote: post #108
maximinus_thrax wrote: post #3

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…

You say "cult of personality". I say "Great Founder Theory". https://samoburja.com/gft/

They’re the same picture

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

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Post by tagamma »

andrepd wrote: post #107
fluoridation wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Are there any solutions that are even close to … some kind of fairness, or even approximation of a system that respects… anything? One way could be have names mean nothing in terms of identification. You can call yourself "music" if you like, but so can anyone else. You're better off calling yourself something unique and then building a following, so that future potential followers can distinguish you from copycats.

Discord kinda had that with username#1234 (4 digits). But that's being phase out.

Is there an explanation anywhere of their reason for doing the phase out? Very curious!
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