Beyond the missteps with the rebranding, others are pointing out that Musk’s move to rename Twitter “X” may involve a financial hit to the brand’s value.
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@i_failed_turing_test The kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon projects could be purchased, the maintainer payed to work for the companies, the community hosted servers can still be buyed out. I know this is not likely to happen. But saying it’s not possible is not correct. Money is a hell of a drug.
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The nature of it being an open platform is if they buy out the maintainer of kbin/Lemmy, anyone with the skill can fork the projects and keep it running open source. Individual instances can be bought out and killed, but the base platform is effectively unlikable in the way Twitter is being killed.