See you in 10 years when Raspputin sells you out again.
These scientists must be quite dumb.
- If i get 10years out of something, I consider that to be a pretty good run.
X is a right-wing propaganda platform now. Bluesky is not a good alternative though. It's just as controlled and toxic as X was just before Elan bought it and will eventually become what X is now when a major corporation or rich person decides to grab it or it goes public. The federation functionality is just for show and marketing. I wish people would stop just jumping when platforms become truly horrible and then jumping to something that will be made as horrible very easily after it becomes popular enough.
USE THE FEDIVERSE YOU FLIPPING POO-HEADS
- Ok, yes, but can we fix the issue where my Lemmy account takes like 10 seconds to load the main subbed feed? The more subs I add, the slower it gets. I got someone to try Lemmy, but they're rightfully put off by how slow it can be sometimes.
- No but see that's not corporate and you have to choose a server when you sign up which is haaaaaaard!
  
  I think we should advertise individual servers instead of the fediverse as a whole
- This!!! Why don't these reprobates go on Mastodon!
- The fediverse is hostile to 'professionals', and missing several features bluesky has, it is not a good replacement for them.
  
  Couldn't there be an association of professional societies that run their own mastodon instance and can control membership and federation?
  
  By 'professionals', do we mean Only Fans content creator? I haven't tried hard enough to find them, but I assumed they're here?
  I follow many professional scientists and librarians on the Fediverse.
  Beyond that - well those are the three professions that I trust to carry society.
  I don't see a ton of updates from plumbers and auto mechanics yet, but I think that is just adoption patterns at play?
Bluesky, which they view as more useful, welcoming, and aligned with their goals.
For now, maybe.
- For real. They just can't stop banning people.
  
  And it's alredy full of trackers.
  
  Can you elaborate on their use of the ban hammer of injustice?
  I don't use it, so I'm unaware of any dramas, but mass banning sounds interesting.
I don't understand how so many people are comfortable voluntarily subjecting themselves to nazi propaganda and rule. The nazi-saluter all but literally has a dial that amplifies the most fervent to the expense of everyone else
Huh.
Seems like there's a weekly article about how it's dead or an echo chamber because there's less tolerance for hatred.
Guess not.
There are not that many things I dislike hearing more than people saying "Formerly Twitter". Either call it Twitter or X, but everyone knows what's going on..
- jup… just call ot twitter
- Silver lining? Mastodon is full of scientists. It is amazing.
- I have read some analysis that right-wing propaganda gets the most engagement when there are liberals in the community to provide the "liberal tears". Yes, there is a core group happy to be in an echo chamber with only imagined liberal tears, but the majority find substitutes unsatisfying. Potentially the diminishing of non-right content volume will also diminishing the right content by making the comments less interesting.
- Sadly we are well into the era of fragmented social media and echo chambers. It was always going to end up like this. Still, I hear you. Social media was more fun when everyone was on the same platforms.

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