@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agoElon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.mashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square254fedilinkarrow-up11.39Karrow-down1154
arrow-up11.24Karrow-down1external-linkElon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.mashable.com@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square254fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•1 year agoThis can be done with any centralized social media. You don’t know your username.
minus-square@StovetoplinkEnglish1•1 year agoI wouldn’t say it’s limited to centralized social media. The admin of Lemmy.world could go into its database and do whatever they want to my username, too. And other instances can feel free to steal my name if I didn’t grab it first.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoThat’s correct! The only social media I would trust is Nostr.
This can be done with any centralized social media. You don’t know your username.
I wouldn’t say it’s limited to centralized social media. The admin of Lemmy.world could go into its database and do whatever they want to my username, too. And other instances can feel free to steal my name if I didn’t grab it first.
That’s correct! The only social media I would trust is Nostr.