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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 mike503 »

This is pathetic. The right handle and recognition could literally be tied to someone's wellbeing at this point. Not to mention world leaders who use their "X" handle to announce stuff - while always could have been stolen by Twitter, there was an expectation the company wouldn't do things like that.

Now there's this unstable billionaire troll who makes decisions on a whim and is hellbent on destroying the platform. This is just another example of "untrustworthy" behavior that makes no sense to tolerate from this type of platform.

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

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Post by Freedom2 »

badwolf wrote: post #191
anonymousiam wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's not _your_ domain unless the registrar belongs to you...

It's not your registrar unless the DNS infrastructure 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 Grum9 »

mike503 wrote: post #201

This is pathetic. The right handle and recognition could literally be tied to someone's wellbeing at this point. Not to mention world leaders who use their "X" handle to announce stuff - while always could have been stolen by Twitter, there was an expectation the company wouldn't do things like that. Now there's this unstable billionaire troll who makes decisions on a whim and is hellbent on destroying the platform.…

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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 mvdtnz »

the-printer wrote: post #127
mvdtnz wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ass…

Just admit that you didn't read the linked article.

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

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Post by rapnie »

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/…

Petnames. Similar to the contacts in your phone.

See e.g. https://spritelyproject.org/news/petname-systems.html

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

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Post by smcl »

mlindner wrote: post #34
smcl wrote: post #17

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Can we not keep spreading obvious propaganda about “child porn”? It’s completely and very obviously illegal to post such things. If anyone was posting it anywhere, on or off Twitter, they’re going to prison. Twitter deletes any such material, and always has, and reports people to the police. So there aren’t any known non-anonymous people out there publicly posting child porn to Twitter that lasts longer than an insta…

Here is the guy in question - a non-anonymous person publicly posting child porn to Twitter who then got suspended. Then Elon Musk took a personal interest in the situation, removed the tweet and restored the account.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/27/twitter...

I guess we will see if there’s any further action against the guy who tweeted it. But we are in a pretty bizarre situation now where accounts like @elonjet (the account that tweeted when his jet took off and landed anywhere) and Chad Loder (journalist covering the far right) are suspended and someone posting child porn gets a pass.

Again, it’s entirely up to Elon what he does with Twitter/X as he owns it. It’s just really fucking weird what he thinks is OK to have there and what he disagrees with.

I am curious what happens to this “Dom Lucre” - he’s not unknown even if I personally don’t know his real name - and no matter his intent he seems to have broken a couple of really serious laws.

@dang can we get my original comment unflagged? It’s a bit odd to have my comment (which is reasonable and accurate) hidden but this reply (which is uninformed and incorrect) to be visible.

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

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Post by sneak »

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

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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.

You used to not be able to access the camera or camera roll from webapps on iOS. The only way to take or upload photos was with a native app. The file upload input control on websites simply did not work on an iPhone.

This is a relatively recent development. I'm fairly convinced it didn't happen sooner in an anticompetitive move to promote native apps over the open web. (Same with web push notifications and a million other tiny things.)

Instagram did not and could not have had a webapp in those days (which is a majority of the time Instagram has existed).

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

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Post by nazka »

isykt wrote: post #83
constantly wrote: post #6

I do think this is philosophically unjust, but in no way should anyone have built any brand on Twitter, particularly a generic like “music”, and not expected something like this would happen. Twitter in particular has a long and storied history of this sort of thing. I think the move should have been, if one were going to start on Twitter, to slowly funnel the largest possible portion of their 11M followers to their…

Wildly ahistorical take. 16 years ago nobody had “Diamond mine trust fund baby takes over Twitter and yoinks handles” on their bingo card for 16 years into the fucking future. In 2007, the housing market hadn’t crashed. George W Goddamn Bush was President. The Web seemed wide open for the taking, and scrappy startups seemed like fun places to share your life or your words or whatever. Vine was still more than half a…

He didn’t wake up 16 years later to finally realize how Twitter operates. Sure at the very start it’s hard to predict this. But through the years/decade seeing how Twitter do this many times, he should have implemented other options a long time ago.

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Post by HumanReadable »

isykt wrote: post #83
constantly wrote: post #6

I do think this is philosophically unjust, but in no way should anyone have built any brand on Twitter, particularly a generic like “music”, and not expected something like this would happen. Twitter in particular has a long and storied history of this sort of thing. I think the move should have been, if one were going to start on Twitter, to slowly funnel the largest possible portion of their 11M followers to their…

Wildly ahistorical take. 16 years ago nobody had “Diamond mine trust fund baby takes over Twitter and yoinks handles” on their bingo card for 16 years into the fucking future. In 2007, the housing market hadn’t crashed. George W Goddamn Bush was President. The Web seemed wide open for the taking, and scrappy startups seemed like fun places to share your life or your words or whatever. Vine was still more than half a…

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min...

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

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Post by leereeves »

monero-xmr wrote: post #197
leereeves wrote: post #189

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Neither is a ponzi scheme, but I think you're both trying to say that each rewards the already rich, which is true. But replacing one "rich get richer" economic system with another is not an improvement, except for a very few people who might become rich during the transition.

I am using a rhetorical technique to point to the traditional economic system to contrast it with the crypto system, and in this way crypto is at least equally bad (if not (much!) better). That technique is for observers of the thread. Unfortunately, if you have a problem with “rich get richer”, I believe you are arguing against fundamental requirement of technological improvement. It takes patience to do anything of…

> It takes patience to do anything of value. Anything. Learning a skill, mastering a job, earning the trust of your peers, becoming a leader

I don't have a problem with "the hard working get richer", as in your examples. I have a problem with the way crypto would reward people for simply owning it as they did nothing.

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