Thank you. I have to admit when I’m wrong. Doubling down is just cringe.

Yeah, I thought about that at work today. I should have said ‘Bluesky is developing a “group think” culture’.

To each their own.

TL/DR Mastodon server admins have a great amount of control on who you can follow. Searches may not find everyone due to defederation. Bluesky puts the control for this in the users’ hands with more robust search and moderation tools.

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Bluesky is growing as is Threads. I’ve read several articles over the past week and not one stated Mastodon is gaining users.

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I’ve been on Mastodon for a couple of years and, for me, it’s so boring. Been on Bluesky for about a week. I currently have more followers and am following more than I ever did on Mastodon.

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Mastodon was setup with the idea of users would use hashtags to find people to follow but I’ve noticed half the posts have no hashtags. I’ve also seen a lot of hashtag abuse to reach a wider audience - hashtags being added to a post that has nothing to do with the topic. An example is #privacy being added to a painting of a beach.

There are followlists (called Starter Packs) for different topics and occupations. Lawyers, teachers, privacy enthusiasts (me), AI reachers, anyone really can find a group of people to follow that share your interests. These are created by users, not the company.

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With Mastodon being federated if you block someone and they move to another server, you need to block them again. This isn’t good for someone being abused by a stalker.

They don’t mess around with blocking trolls “Don’t feed the trolls” could be the site motto.

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You could be on a server that gets defederated or have someone blocked from your searches by the owner of your server. This will limit who you can follow.

Bluesky puts this control back in your hands. There are blocklists to make it easier to remove the maga, nazis, rightwingers, cryptobros, etc from your sight. Moderation tools are far easier to use. Muting of hashtags can be done from the Discover timeline.

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Bluesky is very left leaning which I’m not sure I like. An example, the other day there was a thread about using blocklists and a user said they are silly because you have to trust the creator of that list. Another user said talk like that will get you blocked, many people agreed with the second user. That culture worries me. BTW I agree with the first user.

Is it possible to travel to the past without changing the timeline? Even going to a diner for a meal will make a ripple.

I can’t speak to public domain or not but it is available for download. If Wikipedia had a problem with it being downloaded, I’m sure they would be asking Google to remove the Kiwix app from Google Play.

Don’t childrens’ TV shows have ads?

Wikipedia?

Maybe 😃

What do these apps do? The name doesn’t sound familiar to me.

Batman doesn’t like guns but grenades and missiles are fine.

Beats up the mentally ill instead of getting them the help they need. Imagine the chemical breakthroughs The Joker could make if he was mentally stable.

Cash.

VoIP instead of cell service. VoIP is kyc but I can use it without celltower tracking. I keep my phone in airplane mode.

GrapheneOS and lots of Foss apps.

Every account gets a unique login - name, password, email alias. I also give as much fake information as I can. 2fa when it available.

I have no accounts with any of the big tech.

I’m planning on buying a used Windows laptop and installing Linux. Pop_OS to start as I have an eBook on that os.

Edit: corrected autocorrect.

I don’t live in the USA so I’m doing fine. I appreciate all the comments and feel so bad for each and every one of you.

Don’t take medical advice from people on the internet. Go to a doctor.

N95s. I can’t find any locally that fit me.

My main reasons for wearing a mask is I’m sensitive to perfumes and I work in a dusty warehouse.

They are also good for flu season.

Yesterday, I was blocked from watching a video. I changed my VPN to a USA server. I was using a frontend called PipePipe.

I don’t find the middle finger offensive at all.

Estonia. Digital privacy is my thing and Estonia is the world’s only e-government. They also have the strongest privacy laws.

No Jeff Bezos?

I’ve been hearing about a 4 day work week but haven’t heard anyone talking about 7 days.

I picture country-wide strikes, even for non-union workers.