• @[email protected]
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    217 hours ago

    why are people frothing over Bluesky? this is just Twitter but owned by a different oligarch

    • @[email protected]
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      76 hours ago

      Yeah, why would I use BlueSky when I could just use my favorite platform named Threads?

      Tap for spoiler

      Just kidding

      • @[email protected]
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        15 hours ago

        Same here… even when Twitter was not even in the sights of fElon I found it to be super toxic. I signed up because “it was the best way to get the news” and left in about 4 days

    • @[email protected]
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      25 hours ago

      Because it isn’t just Twitter. Nobody can buy the network, the same way nobody can buy email.

      • Anyone can host a server.
      • Anyone can make an app.
      • Anyone can make an algorithm.
      • Anyone can make a moderation service. Users can freely pick a server, app, algorithm, and moderation service.
      • dnzm
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        11 hour ago

        Yeah, no, not anybody can host a server. Sure, you can host a PDS, but the AppView still wasn’t open source last time I looked, and hosting a relay requires tens of terabytes of storage, not to mention the bandwidth to keep up.

        Meanwhile, people host actual activitypub instances on repurposed routers and their car entertainment system…

    • Luca
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      25 hours ago

      They have an addiction to that kind of socials.