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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

ARE WE LEARNING HOW "SOCIAL MEDIA" WORKS YET HUMANITY?

Seriously. How many more fucking times do we need to go around this goddamn merry go round until we just start calling each other on the phone and meeting face to face again. You know, where the only enshittification is the one you bring with you. It's fucking boring me now, how many of these stupid ass things I didn't join because I've already, apparently, gotten the memo and how, inevitably, something like this happens, and everyone acts surprised and disappointed , as though inevitability was a concept they felt they'd been given a sabbatical from or something.

This. Shit. Ain't. Free. There is an inherent cost, an "effort" required to communicate with others. You pay it with money, time or privacy. The overwhelming choice lately has been "privacy", but it's obviously something that not everyone is comfortable with, because we didn't have the term "enshittification" before we started this flavor of our collective idiocy.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this is unnecessary with custom domains

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No one disliked the check mark before "Genghis Kunt" started selling it

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago

Then come over to Mastodon...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Preaching to the choir

But anyway anyone who thinks bluesky is actually decentralised will learn sooner rather than later that that's not the case

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yous are hyping it a basic verification system which can't be bought and is handed out for the sake of showing credibility is a good thing

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

The sake of credibility? What decides that though? Likes? Likes are a big problem imo. It doesn't really do anything except create echo chambers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

IMO it's not that blue check equals credibility, but rather it equals that you are who you say you are. This is a good thing particularly when it comes to public figures/officials — not for their sake, mind you, but for the sake of other people who may see a tweet from them. If the checkmark is there, then it's them. If not, then it's an impersonator. Right now it's difficult to tell.

Tl;dr: it doesn't make what they say real, it just makes them real.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Bluesky is the new X. After canceling the accounts of Turkish protesters this is the next step for the big money behind Bluesky. That’s why I deleted my account a few days ago.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Exactly, Bluesky has been shitty for a while for lots of reasons. I’m not understanding why this is the line in the sand.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Same. Deleted my account when they started to censor the Turkish protestors. Not that I used the account really but still.

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