That’s a very solid bluesky spike what happened in Oct and Nov to cause it?
All but removal of the block function
Sure it wasn’t caused by some sort of coverage they got during the election?
threads is only growing because they stopped letting you see posts without installing the app lmao
Gonna be real, I was honestly conflating the two in my head this entire time
Its a great app, hopefully keeps most of the libs contained.
I really wish a country like China would launch a globally aimed social media site that has good multilingual support and allows anyone to sign up. Might just be a disaster or never take off, but it’s so lame to just switch between American operated social media sites.
Telegram is the only non-US based one I know of. At least the only big one known for not being American.
i’ve been saying this for a while. i’d like to be on a site that shelters me from CIA and Israeli propaganda
China just releases pre take over Twitter but with a red icon. The fuck is Elon gonna do about it?
The telegram dude got arrested on some insane/made up bullshit in France recently
I always assumed they worked with US intel- but apparently maybe not? Or not enough.
Safe to assume it’s compromised now for sure though…
I like the idea of China if they moderate it how TikTok was done before the last year. Basically wild west, but you can block right wing shit (or push it from your algo).
Jump from nazi site Twitter to diet nazi libs on bluesky gloating about trump glassing gaza because you didn’t vote
All I know about Threads is that Instagram has posts that are locked behind it. Not downloading another app for whatever that is.
It’s amazing how inept Zuckerberg is. How did he fuck up Threads growth this badly?
i think they fucked up the algorithm at the start. they had like 100 million people join on the first weekend after launch and were just spamming people with the same “influencers” you get on instagram which is really not what people were looking for from threads, i think. Also search was broken or non-existent? Idk. I think a lot of people just saw it sucked in the first week and never went back.
I don’t think the type of people who were repulsed by Elon’s acquisition of Twitter were by any means the sort of people who would find refuge on Threads. These people all already have Facebook accounts in addition to their LinkedIn accounts and know how much of a black hole that place is.
I’ll be honest, I don’t know why those people flocked to bluesky. @jack should not have anything like a positive reputation.
Bluesky got coverage on morning talkshows and stuff.
find refuge on Threads.
I mean Threads has been shit from the very beginning and it’s never gotten better even though Zuck had every advantage. It’s like when Myspace could have become a social media juggernaut but it went into the toilet because it was entirely mismanaged and - oddly enough - that helped Facebook to quickly become a behemoth.
I just want some good open source stuff that’s moderated by real humans, this shit isn’t really that computationally intensive to run at moderate scale. All the tech bros are just so over leveraged on capturing every modicum of data on their users that it’s bloated.
Basically anyone could run a decently sized forum on a consumer PC for their immediate area without issue, but someone has to keep AWS alive or the American economy collapses…
Imo the biggest issue with running one from home is security. It’s quite complex.
Is there a Hexbear bluesky instance?
There’s a hexbear mastodon instance matapacos.dog
