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God damn it. People on the Turkey subreddit were running a campaign to move from X to Bluesky because X was honoring the requests of the Turkish Government to take down footage of police brutality and shit.

I and many others have told people to NOT go to Bluesky because it was “owned” by Jack Dorsey and could get bad as Twitter did.

Of course, absolutely nobody listened. Some celebrities also even moved to Bluesky (including the comedian and actor Cem Yılmaz, one of the most known amongst the people. Basically the Jim Carrey of Turkey.) And know THIS happens. Bravo.

I remember seeing some telling others to use OperaGX because a Turkish PARODY ACCOUNT of the official X account posted a meme that supports the protests. I said it’s stupid to support OperaGX because of who is behind it and one of them had the balls to say “Bruh like a browser changes anything your info is everywhere”

So mind boggling.

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drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

People on the Turkey subreddit were running a campaign to move from X to Bluesky

I see so much astroturfing for Bluesky. They have good PR people who know what buttons to push, clearly.

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- finder585@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ya, the marketing blitz here and on Reddit was nuts. Thankfully the PR-bullshit has calmed down some.
  
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- aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I am functionally a pr person for atproto (bluesky) on here because people repeat so much disinfo, and I have someone is wrong on the internet syndrome 😭
  
  However, atproto and bluesky are distinct and I am pretty appalled at a fair amount of their recent decisions, esp this one
  
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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My experience as a person who has a lot of experience working with computer is basically thus:

When you solve a problem for someone, you are a magician.

When you can’t, you are completely full of shit and know nothing about tech and your entire life is a lie.

When you tell someone ‘hey I wouldn’t do that’, your experience and expertise means nothing if what you are suggesting would mildly inconvenience them for 10 minutes, or takes more than 30 seconds to explain why it is a bad idea.

When you tell them ‘hey have you tried this?’ your experience and expertise also means nothing if you cannot do it for them and also make it so it never breaks again, and also they will keep doing the thing that makes it break even though you explained to them how to not do that thing that makes it break.

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73ms@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if he held some share of it but Dorsey probably doesn’t have much to do with Bluesky anymore, at least in an official capacity. The more salient point is about not really trusting any single party that asserts centralized control over a platform.

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IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Governments are more powerful than companies, if there is resistance it is because the government does not have all the power and if there is no resistance it is because the government has all the power

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