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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Sounds good to me, are people tending to close their Twitter accounts when they join Blue Sky?
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Many have but it does mean losing contact with those who refuse to migrate, so the norm seems to be using both platforms.
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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
It was started by the bloke behind Twitter but is making the same mistakes and is still a corporate entity with big money backing pretending it’s not.
Today happens to be Global Switch Day actually.
Switching to publicly owned digital media is the way to protect against the corporate control of our information.
So —> Twitter/X to Mastodon, Instagram to Pixelfed, WhatsApp to Signal, Reddit to Lemmy, Facebook Messenger to Signal, Facebook to Friendica, YouTube to PeerTube, TikTok to Loops.
Bluesky is owned by VCs and crypto backers. It is NOT public social media.
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Bluesky is run as a benefit corporation so favours making a positive impact on society c.f. Elon's negative impact and the increase of hate filled content on Twitter. It is also decentralised like Mastodon, although it is still in its infancy so doesn't have quite the same level of "federation". There is a small amount of blockchain funding but not enough to be a big influence. Blockchain funding seems to be increasing with small media organisations too but they don't seem to gain very much traction so probably not the best way of funding. Mastodon is fine, it doesn't get the level of engagement needed to be a success and the links between fediverse networks can be tenuous. Signal took a similar path to Bluesky, being set up by one of the founders of Whatsapp. I'm not sure how much I would trust Signal, probably more than Whatsapp under Meta's management and certainly more than I would trust Telegram. The others you mention haven't reached critical mass.
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Originally Posted by Paul
.. or just dont use any of them. 
Aside from Mastodon, I've never heard of any of those alternatives, so I doubt many people would move to them.
If they did somehow become popular, they'll probably get bought out by a "corporate entity with big money" anyway.
[ Not sure what any of this has to do with Virgin TV .. ] |
Well, yes, you do make a good point.