I don’t really understand why people would bluesky over mastodon.
But then again I don’t really understand the appeal of reading people’s shower thoughts
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
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.
Isn’t that TikTok?
That sounds about right
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).
I doubt it was made up. Maybe exaggerated or it was even an issue because he didn’t comply but that was it. Telegram was absolutely used over other messenger apps for crime related stuff
Sure
And that isn’t (shouldn’t) be on him
People use the internet and encryption, etc. to distribute CP. Doesn’t (shouldn’t) make creators of tools and services liable for the bad actions of end users.
My meaning of “made up” was not the definition like “totally imaginary. Fake.” It was “unfair, unjust, overreaching.” Maybe I should’ve used those words instead. Imprecise wording on my part.
Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, was arrested in Paris over the weekend over allegations that his platform is being used for illicit activity including drug trafficking and the distribution of child sexual abuse images.
Law enforcement agencies should be arresting the people doing those things (well, drugs… I don’t give a shit for the most part), not the guy who created the platform. It’s all a further expansion of a worldwide war on anonymity and encryption online. They always attack it under the guise of “protecting kids” and whatever else making it nearly impossible to argue that yes, distributing CP is bad… no shit. But these platforms are incredibly important for a million reasons. If the FBI wants to catch child abusers I’d advise them to go to any police department in America and they’ll find a nest of child and women abusers.
I’d also propose, without evidence, him being Russian and Europe’s current frothing Russophobia played a part in his arrest. But that’s obviously speculation.
Its a great app, hopefully keeps most of the libs contained.
Jump from nazi site Twitter to diet nazi libs on bluesky gloating about trump glassing gaza because you didn’t vote
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.
Security is an absolute pain yeah, but it’s also not like there’s a great track record among the big companies anyways.
All I know about Threads is that Instagram has posts that are locked behind it. Not downloading another app for whatever that is.
Is there a Hexbear bluesky instance?
There’s a hexbear mastodon instance matapacos.dog
