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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice. Glad to see people leaving xitter en mass.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I feel like we're going to have a similar issue a couple of years or decades down the line with Bluesky. People would be better off on the Fediverse instead.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

No, this time will be different, I swear!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

And that's fine. What the exodus to Bluesky is doing is making it easier for people to stomach switching to similar platforms, so if Bluesky also went to shit, the inertia is much lower for people to abandon it.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whenever I see how they keep getting brought up, I'm always reminded of that Dilbert ep about how people just fall for blue logos that are easy on the eyes. They don't even have to know what it is... just the fact that the stupid logo is blue is enough. lol

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

Can I get the icon in cornflower blue? https://youtu.be/4NomQYQK1bE

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Another corporate social media platform, what could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

It is less than ideal.
I only hope that it gets people used to the idea that you can leave a platform and the sky wont fall down. Sooner or later these guys will try a federated service and learn that protocols > platforms (in this case activitypub).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can't wait for them to bring in ex CIA/IDF types to "clamp down on disinformation".

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Try hosting your own instance and sorting through the content of 30m people for the one post you want. lol

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

Love an app that defaults me to people I actually follow and doesn't bombard me with endless reams of ads or engagement bait.

We'll see how long that lasts. But for now, its a blast from the past to be on a social media app I don't hate.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago

Sorry to hear that, but at least some of them are not on Xitter.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I never trust meta statistics anymore because you know they're filling out their "numbers" with bots to try and keep their stock prices up.

In terms of real users I bet bluesky has already surpassed them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

What a bunch of dumbasses

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