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by malux85 1637 days ago
Sooooo how does that work? I rent your username while you’re on holiday for a month and then spam your followers with crypto scams and viagra ads?

Or they decouple followers from the username so the username becomes a transient thing, which then gets ignored, and becomes worthless?

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I prefaced it with perhaps incentives don’t necessarily line up… maybe there’s a clever way to go about it. I was thinking it will be pre-approved category of content… there’s already such model with sponsored content influencers post.
That is basically how domains work, but there are grace periods for recovery.