this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
33 points (100.0% liked)

askchapo

22779 readers
304 users here now

Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.

Rules:

  1. Posts must ask a question.

  2. If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.

  3. Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.

  4. Try !feedback@hexbear.net if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I'm not the first person to say this, but why not Mastodon? Why give control to another billionaire?

[–] huf@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

because people are so domesticated, they'd feel weird if there's nobody exploiting their data

[–] luxurycommunism@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had no idea about this. Very funny but also infuriating. They all know exactly what they’re doing with this mealy-mouthed shit. “do not trust corpos” says the corpo suit. Incredible

[–] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s not even another billionaire, it’s Jack Dorsey, the twitter guy. I do not understand why anyone who dislike twitter cares about bluesky at all.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The entertainment industry (which includes most journalists in my opinion) loves twitter's centralized control. They don't hate twitter, they just hate the new owner.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

they just hate the new owner.

Do they? If they did they would stop using that fascist infested hellhole

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Being centralized was kinda the whole point of Twitter. The problem people have is much less to do with the basics of how Twitter works and solely with melon-musk and the changes he’s made

The only thing that surprises me is that Twitter (Sorry, X the everything app) has held on this long. At least set something up to auto post your posts on both while you transition over, but moving to BlueSky should be everyone’s obvious goal with the cesspit Twitter is now.

[–] O__O@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

People like to be performatively stupid and pretend they can’t understand federation despite everyone having email addresses from different providers in exactly the same way.