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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 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

[–] mint_tamas 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

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

then stay at twitter 🤷‍♂️ for now blue sky is many people's choice for a reason.

[–] mint_tamas 1 points 38 minutes ago

That’s really not the only possible move

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

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

[–] mint_tamas 3 points 3 hours 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

[–] paddirn 32 points 17 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.

[–] cable 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] brucethemoose 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Don't jinx it.

Especially not if they somehow coincidentally get some government funding.

[–] cable 1 points 4 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

[–] PumpkinSkink 27 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think I used to play Halo 3 with that guy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 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

[–] bizzle 3 points 13 hours ago

His mom has pretty good tang though 👀👀

[–] psychothumbs 6 points 17 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] 28 points 19 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.

[–] Podunk 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah thats how it was here after the reddit fiasco.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

It has improved here though, thank Jeebus.

[–] rozodru 26 points 18 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.

[–] joel_feila 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf, were you on lemmy last summer?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Or on Reddit after everybody left Digg

[–] psychothumbs 11 points 19 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.

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[–] aLaStOr_MoOdY47 15 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] capital 11 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] psychothumbs 18 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] rational_lib 29 points 18 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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[–] kazerniel 15 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 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] 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 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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[–] MehBlah 16 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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

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