Archived version: https://archive.li/Yg8r8

My favorite part:

But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.

“it’s highly annoying, but Twitter is still my preferred social media,” Vaught said. “That’s how I communicate and learn my news about what’s going on. Nothing else compares.”

His only “minor protest” to X’s action, he said, was to cancel his Twitter Blue subscription.

Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he’s interested in Musk’s electric cars and space developments. He said that this experience with X hasn’t tainted his opinion of Musk or his relationship too much with X as a platform. He’s holding out hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X, but like many users, he’s struggling to adjust to the rebranding.

  • @SulaymanF
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    3671 year ago

    Musk screws him over and yet he continues to use the service?

    People are so stupid these days.

    • @chemical_cutthroat
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      1051 year ago

      This is the new rightwing fan base. It’s cucks all the way down.

    • BrooklynMan
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      the alt-right movement is like an abusive relationship, made up of a bunch of very insecure people constantly seeking approval from an abuser who doles it out with an equal amount of degradation, keeping them confused and isolated enough that they have no choice but to keep coming back because - after having driven everyone else away with their hateful rhetoric - the abusive alt-right is now their only source of “community” at all.

      it’s a cult.

      More thorough video explanation from The Alt-Right Playbook: Endnote 4: How the Alt-Right is Like an Abusive Relationship (live)

    • @KoofNoof
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      -471 year ago

      It’s just a username who cares

        • deejay4am
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          71 year ago

          If “Xitter” is pronounced “shitter” then I can finally get behind the rebrand

        • @KoofNoof
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          -31 year ago

          I care about the emotional wellbeing of people who care so much about what their online username is