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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago

Please stop calling them "apps", they are websites or social networks that has an app.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Good. The more people leave the cesspit, the better off they'll be.

Inb4 some speciously-reasoned lawsuit from the "Department of Government Efficiency" comes for BlueSky alleging anticompetitive practices or something equally ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

careful, people on lemmy will attack you for saying anything other than bluesky is bad and that mastodon is the only way forward

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Joke's on them! My instance doesn't save downvotes. /hj

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

bluesky is bad and mastodon is the only way forward

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yes but my mastodon is either empty or full of Nazis until something gets banned. Threads is a bunch of old white dudes lecturing everyone about everything. On bsky I found most of the stuff I care about. Unfortunately that's where people are going.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I've been on Mastodon for a long time, and I haven't seen a single Nazi. If your Mastodon is "empty or full of Nazis," my guess is there's one of four things going on:

  • You aren't following/followed by good people. Use hashtags, boost toots, follow people back, follow accounts that try to share interesting accounts or hashtags.

    • A subpoint here might be to make sure you're liberally applying the ban and mute functions for bad actors. For especially bad ones, report them.
  • You aren't following hashtags. Similar to the above, there's no algorithm. You decide what your feed looks like, and following hashtags for subjects you're interested in will help you find good people and good commentary (this is much healthier than letting a dumb algorithm decide what you'll find "most engaging," anyway)

  • You are looking at the Local or Global feeds too often. Depending on your instance's federation rules, you are more likely to find those aforementioned "bad actors" here, since these feeds are not curated.

  • Your definition of "Nazi" is the one that means "anyone left of Marxists," or, "supports Democrats," and if so, that's watering down the meaning of the word and giving cover to the real Nazis.

Whatever the case, if the people you're seeing aren't sharing your ideals, pick a different instance or spin up your own, and/or do the things I suggested (insomuch as they are relevant to you). My Mastodon feed is filled with artists and just generally positive people trying to do some good in the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I think people have mostly given up on that, going from the posts I've seen. Like how most people will admit Linux isn't for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

we live in two separate lemmy realities sir

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The post about Stephen King moving to Threads says otherwise. But to be fair, it’s Threads and not Bluesky, which people here hate more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago