Owner of @x Twitter handle says no one reached out ahead of Twitter's rebranding to 'X'

thingsiplay, 10 months ago

@stopthatgirl7 While it sounds funny, until you realize, its also scary how rich people can just purchase and destroy any platform.

i_failed_turing_test, 10 months ago

They can’t exactly buy lemmy or mastadon, since it’s hosted by the community…

thingsiplay, 10 months ago

@i_failed_turing_test The kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon projects could be purchased, the maintainer payed to work for the companies, the community hosted servers can still be buyed out. I know this is not likely to happen. But saying it's not possible is not correct. Money is a hell of a drug.

Unaware7013, 10 months ago

The nature of it being an open platform is if they buy out the maintainer of kbin/Lemmy, anyone with the skill can fork the projects and keep it running open source. Individual instances can be bought out and killed, but the base platform is effectively unlikable in the way Twitter is being killed.

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe, 10 months ago

Oops I destroyed the most media integrated free speech tool in the world. Darn I was really trying to make more money too.

-spam-, 10 months ago

Maybe destroying it was the point, wasn't he financed by people who would have an interest in suppression of free opinion sharing?

LazaroFilm, 10 months ago

Yep. From the start. His goal is to make twitter suck more and more.

WeDoTheWeirdStuff, 10 months ago

He doesn’t “own” anything.

wave_walnut, 10 months ago

for further information:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/25/twitter-changes-its-official-handle-to-x/

lvl, 10 months ago

Well, that didn't take long, the @x handle is now an official X-Twitter account!

Cat, 10 months ago

@lvl, I hope they didn't just seize the account.

Unaware7013, 10 months ago

I would be very surprised if they didn't

Cat, 10 months ago

Well that didn't take long. They seized it. I just saw this post about it.