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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#3From 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 platform by its original name.
I love the smell of 'cult of personality'
[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/x-user-super-pis...
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#4i’m not surprised this happened. with @x, it sort-of makes sense. but to randomly pull handles the company wants like this is a bit beyond the pale of fostering a friendly community.
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#5Something something free market.
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#6I 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 own external site, or collaborated with I don’t know Spotify to funnel people there for cash.
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#7Keep in mind that Musk's stated ambition with X is to make it "the everything app".
Imagine if Google started grabbing Gmail addresses it wanted for products.
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#8I 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…
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Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#9On the one hand, it's unsurprising that platforms would do this, users sign up for TOS with terrible policies and realize too late that they're the product. Too, a handle like '@music' was also an opportunistic bet on hub status of one's own.
On the other hand, the sense of arrogance and entitlement on display here marks an impressive new nadir in fuck-you capitalism. Contractual arguments are sort of meaningless since most user agreements are extremely one-sided contracts of adhesion and the judicial establishment often rejects equitable arguments in favor of narrow technical ones, notwithstanding the vast asymmetries between user and service provider. All the legal, economic, and (increasingly) social incentives favor abusive behavior.
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#10Keep in mind that Musk's stated ambition with X is to make it "the everything app". Imagine if Google started grabbing Gmail addresses it wanted for products.
Google doesn't use @gmail though I know what you mean. X/Twitter should do like Google and use another designation for their own "handles"/services. "@" is pedestrian because everyone on that platform is "@something". A different pattern for official accounts would make sense to me. Just as Google doens't use "@gmail.com" for their own product emails.