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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So they dont deserve a single penny, I'd rather watch this platform burn to the ground.

[–] Zink 8 points 1 day ago

Eh, I’m not interested in supporting them, but the code is free and open source. I’m using a client written by not-them, to connect to a server run by not-them, and reading federated content from dozens of other servers run by not-them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

You can feel that way. but I see it as supporting the product not the people. When I think of the people behind the biggest social media companies in the world they're awful far worse than some tankie larper online and the product is worse.