Swifties say they’re leaving X over Elon Musk’s support of Donald Trump—and the rhetoric that has erupted on the platform following Trump’s win.
  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    97·
    5 days ago

    and apparently Nazis are following suit.

    Someone should perhaps spin up a Mastodon/Misskey/something instance named swifties.social and bring them into the fediverse.

    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
      33·
      5 days ago

      Don’t let them win by giving up spaces they go to. The overall majority of blue sky that I’ve seen has been pretty similar to Lemmy/Mastodon in terms of general content. Make a Nazi cry, don’t let them kick you out of your spaces.

      They are incompatible with society and it’s time they’re made to feel that way.

      • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
        16·
        5 days ago

        the real problem is moving from twitter (x), to twitter (bluesky). expecting it to be better/different. just like all these people currently running from facebook to band.

        really, it’s like running away from jason voorhees and intentionally to freddy kreuger, expecting different results.

        i mean. we here on lemmy already did this. we went from digg to reddit, we learned our lesson, and came to lemmy. so to constantly advertise bluesky makes absolutely no sense. albeit i guess it’s the same principle, people of twitter need to experience enshitification of bluesky before they learn and settle on the fediverse.

      • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
        13·
        5 days ago

        True, though BlueSky is a temporary redoubt at best, though one which, through switching costs, will trap people just as Xitter did. They accepted venture capital funds, and so when the time comes, will have to somehow recoup that from their users. At the moment, they’re in the glue-trap phase, attracting their users with promises to be open and not screw them over (see also: the early days of Facebook). Once enough are there, and have brought their friends and built personally meaningful networks dependent on BlueSky, the trap will close: third-party APIs will be restricted to the point of not providing an escape (as happened with Reddit and Xitter), the user-configurable algorithms will get unremovable additions that gradually increase the amount of ads, influencer content, AI pink-slime and whatever else they want in your feed, and then you’ll lose the ability to see all the content you selected, all the better to keep you refreshing and scrambling for anything you may have missed. And then, since all your friends and the cool people you follow are there, your choices will be to stay and suck it up, or effectively become a hermit.

      • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        4 days ago

        There’s no way to fight them on platforms where they are welcomed by the platform itself. Bluesky doesn’t want to moderate its platform, so there is no fighting the Nazis there.

    • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev
      43·
      5 days ago

      Twitter has historically been used as a platform by a lot of different fandoms and the network effect is strong enough that they haven’t managed to leave en masse until now

      • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        That’s what has kept my partner on x. They also go on way less frequently than they used to, but there’s still some fandom stuff that is only there.

    • whithom@discuss.online
      11·
      5 days ago

      You expect the masses to leave an app that delivers dopamine just to protest someone they envy over a topic they aren’t even aware of? ;)

  • QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.idEnglish
    24·
    5 days ago

    Has bluesky actually federated yet? Happy to follow from Mastodon but I’m not joining another corporate social media (is this the right term? You know what I mean)