I know that’s what drives me crazy too. As opposed to a lot of harmful conservative policies that are clearly motivated by a desire to look out for the interests of the wealthy or pander to xenophobes, the anti-vaxx stuff is just pure contagious madness.

We won’t find out if this changed anything until Rupert is dead.

There’s a big difference between meeting the criteria for being a war criminal and having an arrest warrant issued by the ICC.

The thing that’s tougher to shrug off is that he now has a rotating list of countries where depending on who’s in power he cannot visit without being arrested.

Tell you what I’ll block you and you’ll never have to see my share of it again

Yeah too bad they didn’t get into it earlier, but it has hit a critical mass of users and attention lately.

The reason people post on these sites is to make themselves heard I guess. You just have to ignore or block your way into the level of interaction you’re comfortable with.

Russian fascist owned? What are you talking about?

These parts:

Bluesky can fuck right off as well. I tried it to see if it was any different than Twitter but I had to nope out after 10 minutes.

I’ve never understood the whole Twitter formula anyways. Scroll through endless ramblings of people I don’t care about? No thanks.

There are far better places to stay informed about certain topics or get in touch with people you know.

Yeah X is a big downgrade

Sure the billionaire buying stuff thing happens, but a Nazi billionaire?

To be fair Musk buying twitter and turning it into a Nazi propaganda site was kind of flukey.

Interesting. As with any problematic group that makes the transition it’s a bit annoying to have to deal with them on the new platform, but they shouldn’t be banned and them moving is a great sign that bluesky has the juice.

Meaning like the rationalist / effective altruism guys? Would have thought they’d be prone to sticking with Musk

Not every social media format is for everyone, no need to be hostile about it. I just can’t bring myself to engage with TikTok and Reels and such, but other people really like them and why would that be a problem for me?

Eh idk, Elon boosting right-wing content doesn’t mean that nobody was seeing people’s anti-Trump posts on there, much less that they did any harm.

The platform is the users but it’s also the owners. Twitter got a lot worse when Musk took over and started turning it into a Nazi propaganda platform even though the userbase didn’t immediately change.

The way Mastodon is broken up into little communities such that it’s hard for anything to go viral and you can’t easily search for everything being said about a topic kills a lot of the value of old-twitter. Comes from Mastodon having been created as a twitter alternative with a different philosophy back in the old twitter days, while bluesky is more a reaction to Musk twitter used by people who didn’t have a problem with the old version.

I’d be happy enough if it just ended up replicating pre-Musk twitter - that was a cool website! And in practice as you say with the federated decentralized aspect and a core userbase of anti-fascists it will likely be even better.

I think a lot of people were sticking around to follow election news and try to effect the conversation, and are bailing now that it’s over in hopes of building up bluesky by the next one.