Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent

> The exact circumstances surrounding the changes aren't clear.

The exact circumstances are that they likely paid them a shitload of money.

"lost" is incredibly misleading, as there's no evidence they weren't paid to hand the handles over.

One of my absolute favorite apps similarly likely got a bid to change.

https://allume.com/allume-faq/

Wild so many creators are pouring their life’s work into these platforms instead of their personal website

Reminds me of Musk "stole" the @X and @e Twitter handles from users.

Just the absolute worst company always doing the worst things.

They manage to do everything in a such a way as to indicate "I have more power than you". Gives me the ick.

You don’t own your username on the systems of other people.

People using Instagram usernames as identity is so insane to me. Why does everyone love sharecropping?

I never heard of muse the band. I never heard of meta's muse either.