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panpete said:
Ignore anyone who posts racist posts, tbh I follow content creators I found on other sites.
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I would be extremely wary of any creator who chooses to spend any time on Gab, that isn't being used to troll the fuck out of the ultra-reactionaries and anti-Semites. If you have 9 people and 1 Nazi willingly sharing a table together, what you have is 10 Nazis sitting at said table.
 
NoXion said:
I would be extremely wary of any creator who chooses to spend any time on Gab, that isn't being used to troll the fuck out of the ultra-reactionaries and anti-Semites. If you have 9 people and 1 Nazi willingly sharing a table together, what you have is 10 Nazis sitting at said table.
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I just stick to people who don't follow "isms or hate on groups like jews etc.
 
I have a couple of Bluesky invites going if anyone wants them. It’s a lot less toxic than twitter. Some interesting reading at least. But nothing compelling draws me to it.
 
Same here. I don't know whether it's the way I have it set up but it doesn't seem to show threads easily. Load of unrelated posts - you sometimes seem to get to the posts they're responding (if they link back) to but not always.
 
I keep getting signed out of mastodon and then can't find it in my list of sign-ins, I have to look down through dozens of the things and hope that I recognize what it is stored as, and luckly noc.social rang a bell.
 
Orang Utan said:
I’ll probably hold out til it dies as I have poor impulse control
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I think we're past that point. All that remains is excess gas escaping the corpse in the form of Tice's endless racist incitement, anti migrant types with flags in their profile, pro Israel madness, Alison Pearson and Lee Hurst
 
magneze said:
www.theverge.com

2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse

We’ve barely scratched the surface of what the open social web can be — and it’s already better than what we have.
www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to earnestly believe that bringing Threads to the fediverse is a good idea
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Big nope to that.

Lots of reasons why in this article.

Doing a good-faith walkthrough of what seem to me to be the strongest arguments for federating with Threads has been challenging but useful. I’m focusing on benefits to people who use networks—rather than benefits to, for instance, protocol reputation—because first- and second-order effects on humans are my thing. (Note: If you’re concerned that I’m insufficiently skeptical about Meta, skip down a bit.)
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The Threads federation conversations that I’ve seen so far mostly focus on:
  • Meta’s likelihood of destroying the fediverse via “embrace-extend-extinguish”
  • Meta’s ability to get hold of pre-Threads fediverse (I’ll call it Small Fedi for convenience) users’ data,
  • Threads’ likelihood of fumbling content moderation, and
  • the correct weighting of Meta being terrible vs. connecting with people who use Threads.
These are all useful things to think about, and they’re already being widely discussed, so I’m going to move quickly over that terrain except where I think I can offer detail not discussed as much elsewhere.
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The risks I’ll cover in the rest of this post fall into three categories:
  • My understanding of who and what Meta is
  • The open and covert attack vectors that Meta services routinely host
  • The ethics of contribution to and complicity with Meta’s wider projects
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Bluesky does have the distinct advantage that neither Owen Jones or Ash Sakar post on it. :thumbs:

Quite a nice butterfly logo now.
 
Buddy Bradley said:
I still have 5 Bluesky invites if that's still a thing, it's a bit unclear exactly how open it is once you're on it.
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How do you mean 'open'? The problem I have is that it seems to be just a list of posts that have little relationship to each other. Am presuming that's because I'm not used to the format.
 
Have signed up to, but am not using Threads, but just noticed that FB were promoting selected Threads post and the first one I saw on FB was from a shitty little foetus of a right wing transphobic grifter, so not gonna bother with that
 
The Threads algorithm appears to have decided over the last couple of weeks that what everyone wants to see is enraging far right, transphobic and homophobic shit. It feels worse than Twitter at this point.
 
Buddy Bradley said:
it's a bit unclear exactly how open it is once you're on it.
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two sheds said:
How do you mean 'open'? The problem I have is that it seems to be just a list of posts that have little relationship to each other. Am presuming that's because I'm not used to the format.
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Bluseky doesn't seem to have the option like Twitter does of making your posts only visible to people who follow you, or a 'circle' of followers, if that's what you mean.

The feed of posts will include things that someone else has posted, and then someone who you follow has liked / replied to, or where someone else has replied to a post from someone you follow.

There are settings 'home feed preferences' that may adjust how this works, i haven't tried playing with them yet.
 
Yeah, I've not signed up to use threads but Insta keeps on trying to tempt me by displaying the first half of some really stupid sentences. Not necessarily rightwing posts, plenty of silly liberal/leftwing opinions that I don't want to read either. Did anyone else get the trans Kurt Cobain stuff displayed to them?
 
two sheds said:
How do you mean 'open'? The problem I have is that it seems to be just a list of posts that have little relationship to each other. Am presuming that's because I'm not used to the format.
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I just meant in terms of creating an account, I know it was invite only but wasn't sure if that had changed.
 
Buddy Bradley said:
I just meant in terms of creating an account, I know it was invite only but wasn't sure if that had changed.
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yes, invite code or 'join a waitlist' (i've no idea how long it takes to get to the top of this)

some people are apparently just posting invite codes up somewhere public, which is probably against the rules - i've also seen someone collecting unwanted invite codes so they can raffle them for a charitable cause.
 
Puddy_Tat said:
Bluseky doesn't seem to have the option like Twitter does of making your posts only visible to people who follow you, or a 'circle' of followers, if that's what you mean.

The feed of posts will include things that someone else has posted, and then someone who you follow has liked / replied to, or where someone else has replied to a post from someone you follow.

There are settings 'home feed preferences' that may adjust how this works, i haven't tried playing with them yet.
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Ta - Settings - Thread preferences - Threaded mode tick :) that feels loads better.
 
Has got especially bad in past month or so 😟- I could just about overlook the enshitification of discourse caused by bumping blue tick subscribers to the top of every set of replies, but the non-stop porny promoted posts have made me feel self conscious using the app in public or around my kids... Guessing Musk has really burned his bridges with normie advertisers.
 
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