all they have to do is invite like 30 trans men to the capital for a week and you will see a quick repeal of this policy.

Afghanistan in the 1970s. Once the billionaires start funding the religious extremists to take away your rights it only goes one direction

I just picked the photo he’s banned the most people for. And I’m not sure if thats fat or HGH bubble gut.

between this and dr oz, is he just hiring people he knows from tv?

People get more upset about a bad friend than a real enemy.

mostly, but I think people are of the opinion of doing them responsibly and maybe not doing 2 week ketamine benders on twitter.

This is Russia, no joke.

I think they should just force him to disclose his shitty algorithm

Edit: Third party, local moderators for social media should also be a standard requirement. No outsourcing of moderation.

I was about to say gravity is stronger but it has already been said.

I can’t find the source but if I recall bluesky relies on running feeds through central servers and it has patents on its methods so I would say bsky federation has some asterisks. They have done a great job insulating users from the structural elements which reduces confusion.

The proof is that mastodon user base is steadily going up. There hasn’t been a giant spike in a while but the barrier to monetization is too high for it to shed users from that. Its more like how wikipedia has outlived google as a resource despite wikipedia not being particularly better now than soon after it started.

I would argue siloing is easier on bluesky - block list manager drama can definitely have a similar effect to user admin drama. The thing mastodon does poorly is discovery. The fed and local feeds are nonsense on Masto. Imo it should be replaced with local admin/user curated topical feeds and top cross server topical feeds.

Mastodon requires far more effort to create a new feed than bluesky, and that’s the major problem.

The consumer lockin then monetization lockdown cycle always sheds users. I think eventually most federated systems will gain users, albeit slowly.

in 20 years nobody will be buying a tesla because theyll have killed off their repeat buyers

bluesky has made better choices - the starter packs and user lists are great for new users. They managed to add quote tweets but let the quoted person opt out of dog piles. It looks like they added options for custom algorithms too.

Bluesky will be enshittified but mastodon should be taking notes if they want to pick up people next wave.

The bluesky system is just way better. The local/fed feeds on masto are just wasted.

imagine being that gullible

hate and bigotry is literally the only thing republicans agree on

Elon musk being like “all that money we’re spending on vets could be going into my pockets.”

yeah I don’t think a usa based platform is really “long gaming” the fee speech problem. Bluesky now shifting to monetization plans. Its a matter of time until some rich dildo buys it up. If were lucky it will be mark cuban or somebody buts its still grim prospects.

I would argue democrat donors preferred a trump win and preferred dem turnout be low because they had a decent campaign for a second and shut it down.

What your saying only makes sense if you operate from the idea dems want to win and not that they want to hand a victory their donors.

In 2016 actual democrat operative tried to twistpeople’s arms to vote. This election that energy did not come from the mainstream democrats. Their pitch was “we don’t need you, we want republicans instead”.

The calculus is different when you recognize both parties hate you.