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My favorite part:

But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.

"it's highly annoying, but Twitter is still my preferred social media," Vaught said. "That's how I communicate and learn my news about what's going on. Nothing else compares."

His only "minor protest" to X's action, he said, was to cancel his Twitter Blue subscription.

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.

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[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 357 points 1 year ago

Musk screws him over and yet he continues to use the service?

People are so stupid these days.

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago

This is the new rightwing fan base. It's cucks all the way down.

[-] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the alt-right movement is like an abusive relationship, made up of a bunch of very insecure people constantly seeking approval from an abuser who doles it out with an equal amount of degradation, keeping them confused and isolated enough that they have no choice but to keep coming back because - after having driven everyone else away with their hateful rhetoric - the abusive alt-right is now their only source of “community” at all.

it’s a cult.

More thorough video explanation from The Alt-Right Playbook: Endnote 4: How the Alt-Right is Like an Abusive Relationship (live)

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 215 points 1 year ago

Vaught is mostly a Musk fan

Ah, so he's an idiot. Well that explains his statements.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 35 points 1 year ago

Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he's interested in Musk's electric cars and space developments.

So am I. But the guy is an idiot. SpaceX in particular is successful because he isn't the person running the day-to-day operations.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

You can be excited about the work the engineers are doing without idolizing the bigoted CEO.

I don't see why so many people can't separate the awful business man from the science.

[-] 4am@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This. I love the science SpaceX is doing. I love the EV momentum Tesla created (even if their own products are proving to be less than stellar, no pun intended).

Musk is a huge tool though.

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[-] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 12 points 1 year ago

Gwynne Shotwell does not get enough main stream credit for keeping SpaceX (and Musk) afloat. She's OP.

[-] ren@lemmy.world 155 points 1 year ago

he sounds like a person in an abusive relationship.

"yeah, he hits me sometimes, but Jimmy's a good guy y'all! just need to give him a chance, besides... all my stuff is there, where would I even live?".

[-] idle@158436977.xyz 33 points 1 year ago

"He took my name from me, I'm not allowed to be called by my name anymore. But its ok, I still love him."

[-] ren@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

he's literally the 'This Is Fine' meme.

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[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 103 points 1 year ago

Thank you Elon, may I have another?

[-] pizzahoe@lemm.ee 84 points 1 year ago

What stockholm syndrome does to a mf..

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

nothing else compares

Guarantee my guy tried 3 other websites before calling it quits

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

where he gets his news from. Nothing else compares

Uh... How about an actual news site? Maybe the NYT for example? I'm guessing they use too many words he doesn't understand.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

Also they are part of the conspiracy to follow the rule of law and not elect the glorious leader.

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[-] 4am@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, parler, gab, and voat…

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 57 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


"16 years ago, I created @music and have been running it ever since," Jeremy Vaught, director of engineering at the nonprofit Life Happens, posted on X.

But Vaught never had the time to focus on leveraging the @music audience, only ever benefiting from the account when companies occasionally sent him free perks like headphones in trade for promotions.

Vaught said he was never interested because he knew that selling his handle violated Twitter's terms of service, and he figured there was more value in keeping the account.

To "minimize any inconvenience" from having his account handle taken away, X defaulted to changing Vaught's username to @musicfan, which he described as "probably the least worst" alternative the platform suggested.

But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.

"Twitter's not dead to me at this point," Vaught told Ars, even if "it's a super huge bummer" to lose the @music account.


I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[-] doot@social.bug.expert 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] sixty@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago

I will never not call it Twitter

[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Blackwater, Facebook, Twitter.

[-] Juujian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The site formerly known as Twitter

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[-] coldv@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

If that doesn't taint his idea of Musk, then nothing will.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My only thought (plausable excuse) is that he is possibly sucking up while expressing discontent under the false pretense maybe Musk will pay him losses. Whether he likes him or not, he should know someone thay disagrees with him will not get paid but rather sued for existing.

[-] reclipse@lemdro.id 39 points 1 year ago

This is hilarious.

[-] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago
[-] Hextic@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Look you say "X user" and im thinking X11 Windowing system. Stop trying to make X happen.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Hahahaha this dude is such a little bitch about it. It's honestly adorable.

[-] BROMETHIUS@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Musky simp lol.

“I know he’s crushing my throat with his boot, but he sure does have nice boots, doesn’t he?”

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Apparently have never heard of Mastadon

[-] 601error@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Sorry, only interested in Muskodon

Until Mastadon becomes the go-to for news orgs, governments, and public figures, it won't be a true Twitter replacement

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

X gonna give it to ya and X gonna take it away from ya

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[-] DrQuint@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

He deserves Musk.

[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago
[-] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

I am a bit annoyed that the leopard has eaten my face but not enough to move away from the leopard or do anything at all.

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[-] dub@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Except he's thanking the leopard. Crazy stuff

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

“Twitter’s not dead to me at this point,”

At this point I'm cheering Musk on.

Anyone who is still on ~~Twitter~~ ~X~X^X^ deserves this.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Darwin approved

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