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[–] [email protected] 63 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't mind, actually everyone should ditch Twatter.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

& all the US-based corporate social media… Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Reddit, Discord, LinkedIn, & GitHub.

The VC-funded ones too like BlueSky

[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

all of the corporate social media tbh. federation is the way out of this cycle.

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

Nail on the head… it isn’t about one particular service or protocol but the philosophy of federation

[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

In any case, RSS should be enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I still don't think I understand the full utility of RSS. I guess it's good for forum communication too?

Because my first thought was "RSS is cool but first we need human-written content and blogs to come back."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

RSS to know when there's a new post on the blog.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

"640k should be enough for anybody"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I've managed to ditch every single one of those except LinkedIn. We simply CANNOT get new clients without it. The lockin to that platform is truly terrifying. LinkedIn is a crime against humanity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Microsoft bought these social media platforms like LinkedIn & GitHub for this very reason. They want you stuck in their ecosystems …then train their proprietary AIs on your communications, then sell it back to you when you were the one that made it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Question: how is LinkedIn useful to you?

For me it's just a non-stop swarm of recruiters from India who want me to kindly listen to their offer of a job that pays less than I'd make picking up garbage, utter sociopaths dredging up some psychotic hustle culture nonsense, and previous people I've worked with/for asking for favors, which of course means free.

Is it somehow more useful for an actual business?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I think Bluesky can be an exception. I think it's way better than Mastodon from a UX standpoint. And it's still open.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

No.

It costs literally hundreds of thousands of USD per month to run your own node. If it isn’t accessible to the masses, it isn’t revolutionary. De facto centralization due to prohibitively expensive costs is effectively centralization—same reason we should not trust a platform like Matrix.

Bluesky is just another startup grifting with open washing. It has all the same VC-funded trappings where the history of Twitter will literally just repeat itself—like we didn’t see what happened with it the first time around.

Mastodon can improve its UX but some of these platforms are rotten to the core. Or also use something on ActivityPub that does have a UX you like since they can all intercommunicate—or XMPP PubSub Social Feed since it has stricter governance to prevent it from getting too messy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

People just don't learn.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

And it's still open.

It like chromium, control by for profit vc company.