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[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago

idk he brought legs to the metaverse and it didn't save that

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

Does he tho?

[–] BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 hours ago

I don't really understand why people would bluesky over mastodon.

But then again I don't really understand the appeal of reading people's shower thoughts

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

That's a very solid bluesky spike what happened in Oct and Nov to cause it?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

TRUMP VENI, VIDI, VICI - BABY.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

All but removal of the block function

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Iirc also a new privacy policy (both on Twitter)

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 8 points 6 hours ago

Sure it wasn't caused by some sort of coverage they got during the election?

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 hours ago

threads is only growing because they stopped letting you see posts without installing the app lmao

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 12 points 9 hours ago

Gonna be real, I was honestly conflating the two in my head this entire time

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 24 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

I really wish a country like China would launch a globally aimed social media site that has good multilingual support and allows anyone to sign up. Might just be a disaster or never take off, but it's so lame to just switch between American operated social media sites.

Telegram is the only non-US based one I know of. At least the only big one known for not being American.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

iirc you're actually on a French one right now, and i'm on an Estonian one

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 hours ago

i've been saying this for a while. i'd like to be on a site that shelters me from CIA and Israeli propaganda

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 13 points 10 hours ago

China just releases pre take over Twitter but with a red icon. The fuck is Elon gonna do about it?

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The telegram dude got arrested on some insane/made up bullshit in France recently

I always assumed they worked with US intel- but apparently maybe not? Or not enough.

Safe to assume it's compromised now for sure though...

I like the idea of China if they moderate it how TikTok was done before the last year. Basically wild west, but you can block right wing shit (or push it from your algo).

[–] sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt it was made up. Maybe exaggerated or it was even an issue because he didn't comply but that was it. Telegram was absolutely used over other messenger apps for crime related stuff

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Sure

And that isn't (shouldn't) be on him

People use the internet and encryption, etc. to distribute CP. Doesn't (shouldn't) make creators of tools and services liable for the bad actions of end users.

My meaning of "made up" was not the definition like "totally imaginary. Fake." It was "unfair, unjust, overreaching." Maybe I should've used those words instead. Imprecise wording on my part.

AP News

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, was arrested in Paris over the weekend over allegations that his platform is being used for illicit activity including drug trafficking and the distribution of child sexual abuse images.

Law enforcement agencies should be arresting the people doing those things (well, drugs.... I don't give a shit for the most part), not the guy who created the platform. It's all a further expansion of a worldwide war on anonymity and encryption online. They always attack it under the guise of "protecting kids" and whatever else making it nearly impossible to argue that yes, distributing CP is bad... no shit. But these platforms are incredibly important for a million reasons. If the FBI wants to catch child abusers I'd advise them to go to any police department in America and they'll find a nest of child and women abusers.

I'd also propose, without evidence, him being Russian and Europe's current frothing Russophobia played a part in his arrest. But that's obviously speculation.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 21 points 12 hours ago

Jump from nazi site Twitter to diet nazi libs on bluesky gloating about trump glassing gaza because you didn't vote

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Its a great app, hopefully keeps most of the libs contained.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yeah I go on it a lot and also shitpost on their developer discord. They're good people, some of the devs come from secure scuttlebutt which was a truly anarchist social network design wise (incredibly based). But it was ahead of its time.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 29 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It's amazing how inept Zuckerberg is. How did he fuck up Threads growth this badly?

[–] blame@hexbear.net 15 points 11 hours ago

i think they fucked up the algorithm at the start. they had like 100 million people join on the first weekend after launch and were just spamming people with the same "influencers" you get on instagram which is really not what people were looking for from threads, i think. Also search was broken or non-existent? Idk. I think a lot of people just saw it sucked in the first week and never went back.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 22 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't think the type of people who were repulsed by Elon's acquisition of Twitter were by any means the sort of people who would find refuge on Threads. These people all already have Facebook accounts in addition to their LinkedIn accounts and know how much of a black hole that place is.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I don't know why those people flocked to bluesky. @jack should not have anything like a positive reputation.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 12 hours ago

Bluesky got coverage on morning talkshows and stuff.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

find refuge on Threads.

I mean Threads has been shit from the very beginning and it's never gotten better even though Zuck had every advantage. It's like when Myspace could have become a social media juggernaut but it went into the toilet because it was entirely mismanaged and - oddly enough - that helped Facebook to quickly become a behemoth.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I just want some good open source stuff that's moderated by real humans, this shit isn't really that computationally intensive to run at moderate scale. All the tech bros are just so over leveraged on capturing every modicum of data on their users that it's bloated.

Basically anyone could run a decently sized forum on a consumer PC for their immediate area without issue, but someone has to keep AWS alive or the American economy collapses...

inshallah-script

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Imo the biggest issue with running one from home is security. It's quite complex.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

Security is an absolute pain yeah, but it's also not like there's a great track record among the big companies anyways.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 18 points 14 hours ago

All I know about Threads is that Instagram has posts that are locked behind it. Not downloading another app for whatever that is.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a Hexbear bluesky instance?

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There's a hexbear mastodon instance matapacos.dog

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

You can federate (well, bridge) from mastodon to bluesky (or vice versa) simply by following a bot account, it's surprisingly seamless.

https://fed.brid.gy/