X terms of service has right to take back username. X ported his followers over to new account at least, he said. Vaught is still using X, though he did set up account on Threads and Mastodon.

    • peanutyam@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Irony?

      Since Musk is allegedly about “free speech” - but obviously only if it suits him and your handle isn’t something he wants…

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      1 year ago

      Legally, you are entirely correct.

      As an admin of a Lemmy instance though, I can assure you that the entire userbase of Aussie.zone would riot if I decided to simply take over a username because I thought it was cool. And they’d be right to. Even for a guy whose yardstick of outrageous actions is so out of alignment with the norm, this was not cool.

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          1 year ago

          I honestly can’t claim credit for how wholesome the instance is. The users make the place what it is. I spend maybe 15 minutes a day reviewing user account requests and reports. I can say that 0% of the users I’ve had to ban were locals. The locals are marvellous.

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      They can, but if they want to keep the respect of the community they shouldn’t.

      And the respect of the community is quite important on a social media.