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0 pointspkrotich4y ago0 comments

Perhaps incentives don't line up... but I'm wondering if social media sites like IG should make renting out usernames a thing - obviously there's a market for it. If I'm taking social media hiatus, for example, I wouldn't mind getting paid while away.

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malux854y 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?

pkrotichOP4y ago

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.

pmlnr4y ago

That is basically how domains work, but there are grace periods for recovery.

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