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set_secret@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It has a “chicken or egg” problem. There are better alternatives, except many don’t use them because their userbase is still on Xitter, and said userbase don’t want to move away from Xitter because their faves are still there. I deleted it from my phone, but I keep my account in case I need to look up something there, or to not get my identity stolen and exploited.

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bluesky has limited federation active already, planning to enable full federation soon (they want mod tooling to be more robust before they do)

    Pretty nice place. The user configurable moderation system with 3rd party labeler services and more is quite cool and it’s working even better than hoped (but we’ll need to see how it scales)

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    • PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a bridge in development -not associated with the project- that should bridge @Protocol and ActivityPub.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t discount the FOMO factor as well.

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    • sparkle@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      twitter has fomo?

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Absolutely. Journalists post the latest news. Stuff they don’t report on trends. Maybe you’ll miss something big if you leave Twitter! That’s the thinking anyway.

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• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I went to check it out yesterday and I think I actually got dumber in 5 minutes I spent there.

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  • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you’ll be returning there tomorrow?

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lol I actually never liked Twitter even when I was an early adopter but I’m only interested in it as a professional case study. I do like Mastodon a lot though and so I get the appeal of Twitter done right!

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Find any good witch hunts? We cancelling Markiplier because he totally blinked a desire to oppress women and minorities in morse code? That sounds like Twitter

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    • Fades@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wrong year for that propaganda

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think they were going for a “it’s always been trash” angle

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      • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not really propaganda when it’s STILL a common problem for the internet to go on witch hunts against people for “Grooming” and other such thigns based on the flimsiest of evidence, sometimes continuing to do so even after the person was proven innocent.

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• maniclucky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Porn

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  • psmgx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are so, so, so many other platforms for that, and many are far better

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    • vinyl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And I agree I use mastodon, e621, pornhub, etc. and Twitter is one of those platforms that I utilize.

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    • maniclucky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Absolutely. I’ll poke my head in there when there’s someone on insta who I’m curious to see if they get naked on Twitter. And that’s 100% of my interaction.

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• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For some (few) users, it’s required for work. The rest are addicts or Musk fans.

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