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> It just takes a bit of planning. Haha, no it just takes forcing user account name changes. github.com/copilot, github.com/claude, github.com/models, basical
by deaux 8mo ago
> It just takes a bit of planning.
Haha, no it just takes forcing user account name changes.
github.com/copilot, github.com/claude, github.com/models, basically everything you can think of for the last few years has been through this approach.
- stavros 8mo ago"Hey, remember the username you've had for twenty years? Yeah we want it now"
- account42 8mo agoIt's what you get for being a tenant rather than owning your own site.
- stavros 8mo agoAnd yet it's worth it for the network effects, sadly. These companies should be regulated, the moats are just too deep. I like that the EU recognised this and did start to regulate that these companies need to interoperate.
- efilife 8mo agoI wonder how they prompted these users to change their usernames. Was it just a "we need your username for our business, so comply" notice? https://web.archive.org/web/20210702114132/github.com/copilot https://web.archive.org/web/20210702114132/github.com/copilo... some proof this was an actual user