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.

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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.