Archived version: https://archive.li/Yg8r8

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.

  • @BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    So this guy had his handle stolen and he is still like “man Musk is so cool I am going to stick around on X” dude. What does he have to do to make you leave?

  • @cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business
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    And that’s why corporate social media is so sticky: your average user doesn’t care WHAT is done to them and the most they’ll maybe do is grumble slightly and spend a little less money, but won’t actually bother to do anything or make any changes, or go somewhere else.

  • @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    471 year ago

    Lol it was even a musk fan that paid the money for “verification”

    The best part is that they had to steal another account to give him because there was no way that musicfan was still available in 2023

  • @crow@beehaw.org
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    261 year ago

    X offered Vaught a few alternative usernames to consider—@musicfan, @musicmusic, @music123, or @musiclover—none of which appealed to Vaught.

    You don’t say lol.