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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whenever I see how they keep getting brought up, I'm always reminded of that Dilbert ep about how people just fall for blue logos that are easy on the eyes. They don't even have to know what it is... just the fact that the stupid logo is blue is enough. lol

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

Love an app that defaults me to people I actually follow and doesn't bombard me with endless reams of ads or engagement bait.

We'll see how long that lasts. But for now, its a blast from the past to be on a social media app I don't hate.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 31 points 2 days ago

Sorry to hear that, but at least some of them are not on Xitter.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Try hosting your own instance and sorting through the content of 30m people for the one post you want. lol

[–] mark@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is so true. It costs more money for the server power required for something like that to be pulled off.

There's a comment in this thread going all crazy complaining about it being costly to host anything on the protocol to stop Bluesky from dominating it and everything. But im like "uhh yeah, servers and storage costs money".

It's just so weird how everyone thinks hosting popular sites should be free.

[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago

Im one of them

[–] skygirl@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I never trust meta statistics anymore because you know they're filling out their "numbers" with bots to try and keep their stock prices up.

In terms of real users I bet bluesky has already surpassed them.

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