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The X exodus - could Bluesky spike spark end of Elon Musk's social media platform? (news.sky.com)
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[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 2 points 54 minutes ago

C'mon. "Xodus" was right there.

[–] belastend 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No, lol. Twitter will drift further to the right (thus appealing to an evergrowing demographic) but it wont end because of bluesky.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I can't agree more.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

No. He doesn't need people to keep the platform running. He doesn't need advertisers. He needs his Russian bots. He needs news organizations to pay attention to the crap going on there. That's it.

He's richer than god and owning the platform is paying dividends.

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

At the same time, most people in my country that engage in politics still use Twitter. Even though they're often left-leaning. It's so annoying.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Local non-english discourses are neglected by the Big Brother. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's Myanmar: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

We can only hope it does

[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Here's hoping! Bluesky is nice. The people are nice. And the subscribe-to-blocklist shit is amazing. Never have to see some maga fuckwit spouting poorly spelled hatred again.
Left Xitter in 2016, but Bluesky has me enjoying the format again.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

To be enough of an unquestioning sheep to allow someone else to decide what you see and don’t see is a very smug centrist lib thing to do.

Dems (and I’m NOT one because I consider myself an actual leftist who supports free speech) tend to think that censorship is good. IMO, all it does is create more polarization and torpedoes any inroads we might’ve had toward coming to an understanding. But instead, they put on blinders and hide in their safe spaces, safe from hearing perspective to the right OR left of theirs. It’s embarrassing and a HUGE reason why we have these insipid culture wars.

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Could you tell more about the subscription to blocklist please ? I still haven’t figured out how/what