vezire on Nostr: I manage operations for a Chinese social media app, which is quite niche—probably ...

I manage operations for a Chinese social media app, which is quite niche—probably no one has heard of it. We have an ID/UID system where IDs can be anything, but the system sorts everything based on their "Unique ID" to avoid issues like this. It's strange how Twitter never implemented something similar.

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I've deleted my Twitter account. Some days after my username was made available for anyone to grab (contrary to what used to happen traditionally). Some unfunny imbecile grabbed it and is now running free there making retarded posts while still trying to put out a facade of legitimacy. This is all fine, I don't mind, it's ok.

What really bothers me is that all the old tweets from people who had mentioned "@fiatjaf" in all past discussions now link to this new fake profile. How can they not index the mentions by any form of unique account id, but only by username? And then they allow people to freely change usernames and cause all links to break -- and someone else takes the old username and now all the links point to the wrong place.

Is this jack (npub1sg6…f63m)'s broken code that no one had the time to fix in 20 years or what?