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[–] RedFrank24 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm not sure it will, and I don't really want it to. Twitter is a shithole in part because of the userbase. If Twitter dies, the users will move to Bluesky and make that shitty too. I'm already seeing porn bots appearing in my feeds with as small a userbase as there is!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 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 15 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

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

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

[–] mint_tamas 3 points 3 hours ago

That’s really not the only possible move

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

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

[–] mint_tamas 3 points 6 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 36 points 20 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 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] brucethemoose 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Don't jinx it.

Especially not if they somehow coincidentally get some government funding.

[–] cable 1 points 7 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 28 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think I used to play Halo 3 with that guy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 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 16 hours ago

His mom has pretty good tang though 👀👀

[–] psychothumbs 6 points 19 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] 29 points 22 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 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah thats how it was here after the reddit fiasco.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

It has improved here though, thank Jeebus.

[–] rozodru 27 points 21 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 20 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 22 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf, were you on lemmy last summer?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Or on Reddit after everybody left Digg

[–] psychothumbs 11 points 22 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 16 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] capital 11 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] psychothumbs 18 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] rational_lib 31 points 21 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 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 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] 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (23 children)

It should be Mastodon. This is the same shit with a different name

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day 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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