chapotraphouse

I do wonder if this would move users over, or if SW will just relent and return to twitter as it has a much larger userbase. ofc if you're advertising a service, you want the most people to see it and be able to pay for it. Blue Sky has had huge migration waves before, it's topped the google app store before; a few weeks go by and people slowly walk on back to twitter over time due to the more active user base with an endless supply of content to doomscroll. the thing that gets me is. mastodon already exists, and does have a large established userbase, with sex work instances open to signups. BS is trying to be a secondary niche where others already exist. BS is also owned by corperate interests, publicly traded, and has shown crypto leanings in the past. they'll do some unadvised things in the long run too to maximise profits, and SW are a very easy target when that happens

I hope it works out for online SW, an ex girlfriend of mine used to do it as a side hustle and it did a lot to pay her bills. especially in worsening economic times like this, SW being forceably deplatformed is going to hurt working class people who need to pay every increasing bills

Do you still need an invite to join libsky?

One of my most libbed up opinions: Twitter under Jack Dorsey was... probably about as "good" as one can expect from a privately run, "for profit" (on paper anyway. I don't think Twitter's model is ever profitable in and of itself) "general use" social media app and company.

Good is relative obviously compared to.... Twitter now with daily incantations from Mein Kampf being boosted to millions of viewers. Same goes for Facebook, Instagram (also "Meta" owned), YouTube comments, 99% of Reddit. If anyone or any company ever tries to actually abide by "both sides have extremes" it seemed to be Dorsey's goal. I don't agree with the goal for ideological and I'd argue moral reasons, but, he did ban the outright and obvious Nazis. The bar is in Hell here, but, libbed up opinion, "he was the lesser of the evils!" We finally found who should've been president...

And by general use I mean seeks to bring in a broad audience and isn't explicitly going to be favoring certain ideological viewpoints. Of course it still favored liberalism as that's the default "western" stance, to defend western governments and such, but again,... an attempt was made. It was imperfect, even "bad" most of the time, but the bar is deep inside Satan's rectum on this topic.

If we had tribunals for the creators, major investors and owners of these rancid platforms, and I were a judge (which obviously I would be 👀), I'd argue for leniency for Dorsey. Let him be a humble miner for the rest of his life. Musk, Zuckerberg, that Tom guy from MySpace... well... I am censored on their fates

This is the part where I've set myself up to have someone come in and inform me that Dorsey is a suspected serial murderer or some shit