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If Twitter and Truth Social merge, it would be interesting to see if they stick to their guns, with engagement plummeting and the political aspect even starker.
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don't be surprised if trump signs an executive order that all federal agencies use only 'approved' social media, i.e. ones he and his chums earn from
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Pfft, well, I've deactivated my Twitter account, to remove the temptation even to look.
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In other news the Guardian has just flounced from Twitter
Someone better tell Rick that he'll be running out of people to annoy on there at this rate.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
Bluesky was originally created as a research initiative in 2019 by then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to investigate the possibility of decentralizing the platform.[14] This initiative resulted in the hiring of Jay Graber in August 2021 to lead the Bluesky project and what is now the AT Protocol, with initial funding provided by Twitter.[15] After the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, Twitter severed all legal and financial ties with Bluesky Social. This led to the rapid development of the Bluesky social app and the AT Protocol as a minimum viable product, launching as an invite-only beta in February 2023.[16][17][18] The social app opened registrations to the general public in February 2024.[19] Bluesky is considered a major competitor to Twitter following the acquisition of the platform by Elon Musk, alongside Threads and Mastodon.[20][21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky
I still can't quite believe the bloke in terms guts. He knew that buying Twitter and to his mind making it more balanced/centrist would alientate half the population. Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter endorsed Musk when he stepped down from the company, he also stepped down from Bluesky relatively recently and went back to X.
Another u-turn? Former Twitter boss Jack Dorsey suddenly quits Bluesky’s board of directors, and calls X ‘freedom technology’
Jack Dorsey has departed the Bluesky platform he helped create, and in a surprising u-turn has endorsed Twitter (since relabelled X) that is now owned by Elon Musk.
One thing with Musk, you damn well know he wouldn't kowtow to anyone, organisation or government, if he thought it was against free speech to/in his mind/head.
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Interesting about turn by Dorsey.
As for Musk, I reckon he's got the stage of not being able count his billions so has decided to amuse himself in politics. And maybe wind a few people up in the process.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
A day or two ago, this ticker on Bluesky was going up roughly one per second. Looks more like 10/s at the mo. Still trifling numbers compared with Twitter, but if several major accounts withdraw from there, it loses all its usefulness.
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Looks like you're part of a trend Brian 😊
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Even for the Telegraph, that's quite the take. The Guardian appear simply have decided not to use a medium that is not only inhabited mostly by MAGA trolls, but (and probably because of the MAGA takeover) because the genuine engagement with their posts their has fallen through the floor.
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Why did Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey leave Bluesky, the Twitter alternative he helped create?
Because — in Dorsey's telling, at least — Bluesky was "literally repeating all the mistakes [Twitter] made as a company."
That's the TLDR from an interview Dorsey conducted with journalist Mike Solana at his Pirate Wires site.
The longer version of that explanation: Very early in Twitter's history, Dorsey imagined that Twitter could be an open-source protocol that wasn't controlled by anyone, instead of a venture-backed, for-profit company. But that didn't happen. And later on, when Dorsey got frustrated while running the for-profit version of Twitter, he imagined that Twitter could help start an independent, open-source protocol version of itself — Bluesky.
But then — in Dorsey's telling — he got frustrated that Bluesky was doing things like the old Twitter. Things like raising money, and moderating what happened on its platform, and having a board. Which Dorsey was on
Like I said, he knows Musk wouldn't kowtow to anyone one, organisation or government.
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To be fair, they do want the leavers back on X 😉
"All I’ll say is, as an X user, I hope the Guardian and the Bluesky converts and the celebs do stay, or return. Not for the articles, or the insights, but for the laughs. To those of us who haven’t been in the grips of their elitist, anti-populist hysteria over the past eight years, watching so many supposedly wise and well-educated people say ridiculous things on a daily basis has been hilarious, not to mention eye-opening. Long may it continue."
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
They could try reading the Telegraph for that. Maybe they don't want to pay the subs.
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Not really sure you get to do some bullshit government job and then claim political neutrality tbh.
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That's his opinion, look at how the left constantly anhilate him on his own platform. The second top trending search on X now is BlueSky. That doesn't seem like sensorship to me.
Deregulating government, cutting the trillion dollar debt and shifting the economy further from public to private sector will be a big change.
Do you even understand what you are typing?
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He jumped about like a lunatic on stage campaigning for one side. That's not especially neutral.
Now he's going to be both a government advisor and a major beneficiary of government contracts and (you'd assume) government policies.
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And tell me, what would have happened if his risk hadn't paid off? He actually got off his arse got out there and campaigned at large venues because he believed the Democrats were/are heading in the wrong direction. He had the guts to make his stance known a couple of months ago. Again, knowing around half the population would be against him.
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Literally nothing would have happened. He'd have still had his contracts, and policies promoting evs would still be there. The Democrat administration would not have persecuted him for his political views, like they haven't so far.
This way, he also gets a tax cut.
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It's pointless continuing this, you're talking for talking sake. It's what I also find annoying about Trump.
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It's almost like advertisers are pleased to get off the Musktrain.
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Another one bites the dust.
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Then stop.
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No, don't want to. You stop so I don't have to.
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I would have thought that Musky would be right up Austria's street given their current political position.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Wondering if Bluesky weren't quite ready for the speed of migration... looks to be about 30/s now, and perhaps consequently... certainly a bit sticky for me this evening.
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It will be interesting if it does better than Threads after all the hype settles.
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Threads has lost the plot, as far as replacing Twitter is concerned... maybe it didn't really want to, but I think Zuck has kept FB, IG & Threads too alike.
Certainly, BS can't afford any outages now, but I would hope that they can upscale at a similar speed as Zoom did at the start of the pandemic. It's gone over 16m now, but could they cope with, say 160m in a matter of days or weeks? I've no idea.
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Yeah, it's a tricky one too. Do they go and blow a load of money upgrading their systems only for the numbers to drop off, but if they don't an the experience is poor people will turn away.
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Apparently it's currently designed for 100m users, and yesterday's problems were caused by someone slicing through a fibre optic cable somewhere on the East Coast of America. They added 1m in one day, so I though they've got some margin still, they'll probably be looking at capacity if expansion carries on at that rate.
Not sure if it's true or not, but apparently they've got just 20 employees. Not sure what their business model is... maybe it'll be to build it up then flog it to Peter Theil.
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