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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The fucking Russian shills cried on Reddit resulting in permanent bans. They will be here soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

It's always been there, it's easier to moderate them out than it is on the alternatives. Would rather still be on bsky/mastodon than whatever the fuck.

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

Idiots don’t fact-check, and now we all pay the price. We can leave Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, whatever—but nothing can stops them anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's how you know you've made it in social media

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Man, there’s like no day I don’t see another high quality version of this meme on Lemmy.

How many different upscaled versions do you people have exactly?

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I wonder if they'll ever notice this place. Like. Before a big election or something.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I swear they're already here. We got a couple stubborn conservative plants doing nothing but posting disinfo day in and day out. The mods of [email protected] are particularly sus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's basically what the ml and hexbear instances seem to be. Or at least there's a lot of them there.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (24 children)

At least this anti-Ukrainian spam seems to get flagged as such in my polish corner of Bluesky. Wondering how long that will last and if we’ll see Jack Dorsey doing fascist salutes on stage too.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As far as I know, Jack Dorsey left Bluesky almost a year ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-bluesky-twiiter-nostr-interview-2024-5

His interview on the topic: https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

I have to somewhat agree with him that Bluesky is still very much susceptible to turning into Twitter all over again. Right now, it definitely feels like Twitter in its infancy but with all the modern QoL features we expect to have nowadays. Which is nice, of course. Twitter didn't used to be such a toxic shithole of bots and disinformation, it used to be a powerful communication tool for activism and journalists covering rapidly evolving events live.

However, the endgame of such platforms is inevitable. Higher user saturation means higher operating costs, which then usually means the company has a higher reliance on advertising, which then leads to more algorithms and data mining for targeted ads, which then leads to easier mass political manipulation campaigns.

I'm not sure if it's actually possible to attract mass audience without an algorithm driven model. Mastodon tried and it's had some moderate success, but because it's completely devoid of algorithms, users have a harder time discovering people/accounts/mindless entertainment. That's the only reason I can think of as to why Bluesky took off so much faster.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The nuclear block makes it a fools errand

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

I very much love the Bluesky block. Admittedly I am not there much, but still.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

it is normal because the platform is growing and then BSKY public blocklist will be bigger to counter this.

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