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[-] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 417 points 1 year ago
[-] zerkrazus@lemmy.world 210 points 1 year ago

As all billionaires are. Along with unempathetic sociopathic psychopaths.

[-] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

I can't fathom having the power to save our at least change millions of lives...but instead choose to leech more wealth from the people that need it most. And systematically make the world worse. It's a sickness.

There are no good billionaires.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

I would build SO much low income, homeless, and transition housing. I would also start my own line of bamboo products and packaging to replace plastic.

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[-] Kantiberl@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That may be the most tautological sentence I've ever read.

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

Automated teller ATM machine 👍

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Well yeah. If you weren't sociopathic, you wouldn't be holding onto all of your money, but would instead be trying to help people with it.

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[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 348 points 1 year ago

According to Hwang, the company now formerly known as Twitter did offer "an alternative handle with the history of the @x account" so that his original account, complete with its posts and followers, could live on and continue to be used.

What short, catchy username did Musk's company change Hwang's handle to? @x12345678998765.

You can't make this shit up. God damn!

[-] keeb420@kbin.social 114 points 1 year ago

that sounds like what an idiot would have for a password.

[-] anteaters@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago

So you are saying one could log into @x with that...

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Quick someone check if it’s Elons password!

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 33 points 1 year ago

Nah his password would definitely include an "42069" in it.

[-] elvith@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

Did you try xXx42069NoScopexXx?

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[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

However, Hwang tells me, he was also offered a new handle of his choice – as long as it's available. He just hasn't picked one yet.

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 115 points 1 year ago

He should ask for @twitter.

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[-] sam@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 year ago

"as long as it's available" is as good as nothing imho.

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[-] Syringe@lemmy.world 154 points 1 year ago

Man...

I was pretty bummed when I heard that Twitter was going to die. There are some cool moments in history that happened on Twitter. It was a hell of a ride, but the writing was on the wall well before Elon bought it. It was time to go.

But not like this.

It deserved a good death. Not to have it's corpse raped on full display over and over.

A lot of very talented people committed so much time and energy to this. When it launched, it was a novel idea and they really forged some roads in our understanding of how we communicate and receive information.

It was clear at the end that it would never produce the kind of ROI on advertising to make investors happy, and that Nazis had clearly taken over the platform and used it to bastardize journalism further. It was time to go to pasture.

But not like this.

Hopefully its mutilated, humiliated and desiccated corpse will feed the growth of the federated web.

I hope you find peace, sweet prince.

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[-] skellener@kbin.social 136 points 1 year ago

Shitty social media website does shitty thing and continues enshittification full throttle.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

As much as this sucks, this person has no rights to their name and never did. Stop using the platform and giving it attention!

[-] li10@feddit.uk 37 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s not like they ever bought that name from Twitter so there’s no real argument that they actually own it, even if they’d ever bought the checkmark BS.

Money and a rename would have been a goodwill gesture, and expecting any goodwill from this version of twitter is insanity.

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

I don't think anyone is saying they are owed money. But just taking the handle with nothing in return is really not nice.

They could at least give the guy like Twitter Blue for life or whatever the heck premium is called now.

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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

I hate to say it because Fuck Elon, but this is just one of those things you sign away when you agree to the terms of service.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

True, but it's still worth criticizing because of him being so dickish about it. He even renamed the account @x12345678998765.

[-] ours@lemmy.film 22 points 1 year ago

And he could have gone down the "Mike Row Soft" route and offered the guy some free stuff as compensation. Terms allowing them to do something doesn't mean they have to be dicks about it.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Exactly! Musk is being an asshole because he can and he likes it. Sure, he has every right to be an asshole just like Jason Aldean has the right to release a racist song. That doesn't make them free from criticism.

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[-] ChamrsDeluxe@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well I went ahead and did a mastadon. No clue what I am doing, but.. Woohoo?

I'm chamrsdeluxe@mastadon.social there too I guess. Idk

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

You'd want to include your instance as part of your handle. I know, it's not as intuitive as a centralized service, but it is a requirement, especially when sharing the name elsewhere. So, your Lemmy account is chamrsdeluxe@lemmy.world. Folks on lemmy.world don't need that, but folks on another instance (like me) would. I can get it from clicking your username, but there's no way to figure it out for a different platform from here.

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[-] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

What short, catchy username did Musk's company change Hwang's handle to? @x12345678998765.

That's some really !funnyandsad material...

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[-] HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Musk is an overpaid idiot, but anyone has to expect not to have any real rights on any website.

[-] mtnwolf@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

To be fair, no user "owns" their account. Everything about your Twitter account, from the user name to the data you tweet belongs to Twitter. I hesitate to call it a dick move. It's more of an Elon move.

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[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Imagine how amazing the PR would have been if the title had been: "User gets spectator seating for a SpaceX launch in return for lost handle"

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[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

More X-crement. Stop wasting your time on this shit site.

[-] LakesLem@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

Another example of Musk being a cunt, what a surprise

[-] nunya@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can hear his theme song now.....

X gon' take it from ya (uh), he gon' take it from ya X gon' take it from ya, he gon' take it from ya

First we gonna rock, then we gonna roll Then we let it pop, go, let it go

[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago

I doubt X has much money to spare to give to people considering how they hemorrhage money.

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[-] gunnm@monero.town 23 points 1 year ago

This can be done with any centralized social media. You don't know your username.

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[-] ninja@hoboninjachicken.com 19 points 1 year ago

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