Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
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7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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Remember when they took handle X from it's original user Gene X Hwang, who had it for years? The renamed him to @x12345678998765.
User names are taken as easily as they are given. They aren't worth any price unless you have some memes to spread.
But hey. Claim as many names as you like now. Apparently you get to charge 50k to sell them to those with more money than sense.