That music player skin… Anyone remember Sonique? (that was Windows only though)
People did that, and they restored the posts…
The brand with the bird and all was actually one of the more valuable parts of Twitter that he bought…
This was posted three years ago. My guess is that the recent replies made it show up in “hot” again. I see a lot of old posts with new comments recently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
For an excellent writeup how Google used this to kill XMPP read this (and an explanation why this is a real concern for Mastadon/Fediverse):
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
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