alt Hacker News> Meta simply stole the username because they could, and gave the old owner nothing in return.
The name changed happened across platforms including Twitter\X.
Meta doesn’t own X.
Is nobody reading the article? This comment section is crazy.
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underlipton • today at 1:19 AM
That's what happens when you abuse people's trust for years: they don't trust you.
This place has become Reddit with how easy it is to farm upvotes for any “evil corpos” take, no matter how clueless or inane.