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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 Seanambers »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #109
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…

Cult of personality-induced Stockholm Syndrome.

Please, wtf, thats just idiotic. Can't say I agree with X's style of appropriating tags but just the assumption that everything comes as an edict from EM himself is kinda sick.

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

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Post by romwell »

jbigelow76 wrote: post #136
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.

Not just Gen X, sadly

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

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Post by 627467 »

tombert wrote: post #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.

I could bet that number of users losing their account on mastodon on way or the other is proportionally higher than on Twitter. Instance admins are more powerful that reddit mods.

Yeah, you could take your date elsewhere, but not your original identify (yourNameAtSomeoneElsesDomain).

(...unless you're selfhosting your instance)

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

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Post by worrycue »

jbigelow76 wrote: post #136
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.

You are. I mean the similarities are uncanny. Both are publicity hounds who flip out at any perceived slight. Both are vain, petty, vindictive, and in general, seem to show all the signs of narcissistic personality disorder.

Both have gone through countless wives. Both have a habit of not paying people because they can get away with it - as it’s too expensive to sue them for nonpayment; they can drag it out in court and bankrupt you.

I never got caught up in the Musk hype and the more I learn about him the more wary of him I became. I have seen the amount of damage to society a narcissist can do in the form of the 45th.

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

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Post by aeyes »

HWR_14 wrote: post #124
sneak wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

m.uber.com is completely functional as well

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

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Post by terribleperson »

rectang wrote: post #133
terribleperson wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 O…

That's why I followed on with the suggestion of replacing the numbers with the owning entity. "Apple|Apple Inc." would be separate from "Apple|Apple Records." Of course, this is complicated when a trademark is owned by different companies in different countries or when a trademark is licensed to a company including the right to advertise with that trademark. An alternative thought I had was replacing the numbers with the business the trademark is in, but plenty of trademarks apply to more than one business and the 'primary' one can change over time.

There are assuredly better solutions, but even an imperfect solution is better than the current state of things. First-come-first-serve with unique per-site screen names just plain sucks.

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

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Post by CamperBob2 »

jbigelow76 wrote: post #136
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.

It should worry you if you do business with any Musk-owned company. I'd consider buying a Tesla, for instance, but its resale value could easily drop by five digits based on a single Tweet from Musk.

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

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Post by afavour »

Seanambers wrote: post #151
SkyMarshal wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cult of personality-induced Stockholm Syndrome.

Please, wtf, thats just idiotic. Can't say I agree with X's style of appropriating tags but just the assumption that everything comes as an edict from EM himself is kinda sick.

“sick” is pretty exaggerated language. And he runs the company, all of the companies decisions are ultimately attributable to him, especially when it demonstrates a change in policy from before he bought the company.

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

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Post by MarcoZavala »

worrycue wrote: post #154
jbigelow76 wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You are. I mean the similarities are uncanny. Both are publicity hounds who flip out at any perceived slight. Both are vain, petty, vindictive, and in general, seem to show all the signs of narcissistic personality disorder. Both have gone through countless wives. Both have a habit of not paying people because they can get away with it - as it’s too expensive to sue them for nonpayment; they can drag it out in court…

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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 terribleperson »

tiltowait wrote: post #150
terribleperson wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

Beyond making each name available to 10,000 (or more) people, randomizing the numbers puts everyone on a playing field. It’s an elegant solution—and why it’s such a baffling shame that Discord recently abandoned it for the terrible, outmoded “one unique username for everyone” approach.

Yes, I was quite annoyed that Discord decided to abandon their 4-digit numbers. The first place I saw the approach was Battle.net, and was happy to see it when I joined Discord. I'm glad Discord decided to provide the ability to have a separate nickname from your actual handle, but there was no good reason to dump the numbers.

edit: I agree the randomness is important. Without random numbers, the first person to get in will pick "0069".

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