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[–] MicroWave 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even so, many politicians have already signed up for the service. Axios reported that as of Thursday evening, more than a quarter of Congress’ 535 members across both chambers had created accounts, as well as half a dozen Republican presidential candidates and top White House aides.

[–] gk99 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who needs lobbying when you can just collect blackmail data on politicians because they willingly install your app?

[–] jrs100000 1 points 1 year ago

I doubt many national level politicians run their campaign accounts on their personal phones. In fact, I bet theres only one who does that.

[–] Shan 4 points 1 year ago

This is also evidence that bluesky is going to Google+ themselves out of a market share by slow rolling so much.

[–] Shan 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wild that people just don’t mind being exploited by a social network like that.

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

The majority are either commercial accounts and “influencers” or placeholder accounts for Instagram users.

There have already been cases of people who never even downloaded the app being recommended to other people because they have an Instagram account.