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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And I'll be right there with Bluesky, it's so much better on every issue, significantly fewer bots, no ads, no premium version, and no AI

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yet. Mind you, they are VC-backed. Eventually they will enshittify it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Nothing lasts forever. But for now, it's decent enough.

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

Sure. On the other hand, I’m not sure it’s a good idea to make a new home at a platform with an investment from crypto bros, that will eventually become Twitter/X 2.0. https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113472115447080382

[–] [email protected] 30 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

X will likely merge with TruthSocial as the defacto Conservative/Right-wing social media site (named something dumb like "XTruthXSocialX"), while BlueSky will become the defacto Liberal social media site.

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

Can you imagine taking X (formerly Twitter) public again with a merger with $DJT? Holy smokes.

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

Don't jinx it.

Especially not if they somehow coincidentally get some government funding.

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

If anything they'll be able to do it, as well as bringing up some already half-dead stocks back to life and fuck some hedge funds that thought they hit the jackpot... call it the M&A era of America

[–] [email protected] 27 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think I used to play Halo 3 with that guy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yea, he never turned off his mic. Pretty sure I heard his mom come down with tang and Oreos and he cussed her out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

His mom has pretty good tang though 👀👀

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

That would be great - much better than the current situation where twitter is run like a right-wing site but still has people from across the political spectrum hanging out there due to inertia.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 16 hours ago (7 children)

99% of my Feed on Bluesky was just people saying they've left Twitter for Bluesky. No amount of suggest less of this helped.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah thats how it was here after the reddit fiasco.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

It has improved here though, thank Jeebus.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

happens on every "new" social media platform that is similar to another social media platform. Was all over Lemmy when people were "boycotting" reddit...course most went right back to reddit when the boycotting was over.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well i am on both. A lack of rpg and splatoon keeps me mostly on Reddit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Morrowind would keep me there but i dont really have much to say about it anyways in terms of posts (that hasnt already been said) so ion need it myself :3

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

Tbf, were you on lemmy last summer?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Or on Reddit after everybody left Digg

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago

Haha there is a gigantic wave of people switching over from twitter right now, that's just what is on people's minds. The conversation will move on soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Just like when Threads launched and or when Reddit made the API changes. You get a flood of new users who want to talk about being new users.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

Looking like it’s about time lmgtfy to make a comeback.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

It's the hot new non-billionaire controlled social media app for the 2020s: https://bsky.app/

[–] [email protected] 27 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Non-billionaire controlled so far. It's a public benefit corporation, which is vulnerable to being Altmaned. Once it becomes valuable money will find a way.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

not billionaire owned, but a bunch of VC firms led by one called Blockchain Capital already put a 15million USD bridle on them

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I've started removing trash sites. I blocked twatter and reddit at my router.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (5 children)

Why people cannot see that the core problem of twitter is not that it got bought by the asshole billionaire. It's that the asshole billionaire was able to buy it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Not best either

[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago (16 children)

Ha ha ha, yeah, sure. Bluesky won't defeat xitter, at best it'll just be the "next thing" once xitter finally finishes getting rid of most of its users, which I guess will take more than 4 years from now.

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