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[–] [email protected] 214 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I just hope federal services (like applying for a passport) don't become Twitter-only after Trump appoints Elon as Secretary of Enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (29 children)

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I've made a huge mistake breaking my personal rule to avoid all political content and I've regretted that immediately

[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Thing is, mate.....fascists rarely stay inside their boarders. This is going to be the whole world's problem in about 3 months.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe for the rest of our lives, however long that is...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (5 children)

upside: maybe fashism will kill us all before climate does? yay?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

With the fascist in power they're going to speed up the climate destruction

So maybe the fascist will kill us with the climate

yay?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cute that you think it'll only last for 4 years.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

4 years if laws and constitution stay the same and are followed.. first term he had people alienated into him who were at least slightly appropriated for their positions, this time people who has nothing to do with their positions are being appointed simply for being loyal to him... Let's see if any of them won't let him do anything drastic within 4 YEARS

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

You mean head of DOGE? Because we live in the timeline where a terminally online edgelord with the brain of a 14yo and the body of a 54yo makes meme government agencies.

Anyway, get your passport now. They're good for ten years, enough to last at least through the tentative end of Trump's circus.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago (12 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

Bsky federates. I follow several people from my Mastodon profile.

Edit: I should add a caveat here. Federation doesn't work as smoothly as Threads yet. You have to use a bridge service: https://fed.brid.gy/

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For now. They're still in their growth phase. If they ever become dominant and they need to make money, they'll turn into a walled garden like every other. Everyone seems to forget that Twitter, Reddit and Facebook were also all about openness at the start

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Absolutely, I don't trust them at all. There's a reason I'm on Mastodon and not either of the corporate platforms. It is nice to at least be able to follow people there though, and interact with them.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bummer that isn’t mastodon but any inconvenience to musk is appreciated

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Actually not a bummer in my opinion, let people sort into different platforms based on their interests like we used to do with forums.

A fragmented internet is a better internet

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But it's not fragmented. Mastodon is still the odd "vegan" option while BlueSky is becoming the main Twitterlike platform. Mastodon is still coming out the other end mostly the same.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I say this as someone who likes fediverse microblogging (Mastodon, MissKey, etc) it will never be Mastodon. Mastodon and its maintainers are staunchly against all the things that would make it a viable replacement to Twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Why people cannot see that the core problem of twitter is not that it got bought by the asshole billionaire. It's that the asshole billionaire was able to buy it.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (30 children)

It should be Mastodon. This is the same shit with a different name

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Let's replace one proprietary service with another. It looks so good with its API wide open, like it's never getting enshittified.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It’s obvious to me that we need to have laws to enforce portability of data and interoperability for large platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Countdown until it turns out that everybody associated with any competition to Musk's companies just so happens to be a criminal Trump siccs his DOJ after: 5... 4...

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (5 children)

X will likely merge with TruthSocial as the defacto Conservative/Right-wing social media site (named something dumb like "XTruthXSocialX"), while BlueSky will become the defacto Liberal social media site.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think I used to play Halo 3 with that guy

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I suspect it will only because every single furry on YouTube seems to be trying to get the entire fandom to move from Twitter to BlueSky. You know we run the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (14 children)

These kind of articles always remind me whenever a new MMORPG launched, and then people claimed it would be the World of Warcraft killer.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (9 children)

99% of my Feed on Bluesky was just people saying they've left Twitter for Bluesky. No amount of suggest less of this helped.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

happens on every "new" social media platform that is similar to another social media platform. Was all over Lemmy when people were "boycotting" reddit...course most went right back to reddit when the boycotting was over.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good. Fuck Elon Musk and Twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Ha ha ha, yeah, sure. Bluesky won't defeat xitter, at best it'll just be the "next thing" once xitter finally finishes getting rid of most of its users, which I guess will take more than 4 years from now.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Twitter facilitated exactly what Elon set out to do with it.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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