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X, formerly Twitter, commandeers '@music' handle from user with half a million followers (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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X terms of service has right to take back username. X ported his followers over to new account at least, he said. Vaught is still using X, though he did set up account on Threads and Mastodon.

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[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It happens. If nothing else, we understand why you want to stay active on both services.

Honest question: Have you thought about what to do when Elon notices your corner of Twitter (or when it finally collapses and is shut down)?

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If he bans adult content or something then I just move elsewhere. Now I just mute everything unrelated in my feed and mark as "not intereste" for all irrelevant suggestions. So far it seems to work well enough

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

Nice. I hope it continues.