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> Meta simply stole the username because they could, and gave the old owner nothing in return. The name changed happened across platforms including Twitter\X.

> Meta simply stole the username because they could, and gave the old owner nothing in return. The name changed happened across platforms including Twitter\X. Meta doesn’t own X. Is nobody reading the article? This comment section is crazy.

brookst 1mo ago
This place has become Reddit with how easy it is to farm upvotes for any “evil corpos” take, no matter how clueless or inane.
- throw0101a 1mo ago
  > This place has become Reddit […] Not reading TFA (the fine article) has been a noble Internet tradition since (at least) the earliest days of Slashdot.
  - brookst 1mo ago
    Oh way before that. But the mating displays about every company being a conspiracy are about Reddit era, IIRC.
    - mfru 1mo ago
      to be fair, Meta is a conspiracy company, probably just not in this particular case
underlipton 1mo ago
That's what happens when you abuse people's trust for years: they don't trust you.