Can’t say I’ve felt any such issues. Probably comes down to you being on the biggest instance.

Forgive my ramblings, but here’s the main differences I see, from a community perspective:

Bluesky’s for people who loved twitter circa 2015
Mastodon’s for people who loved the format but hated the way the platform made use of it. The community is FOSS-focused and anti-corporate.
Bluesky folks are anti-corporate, but they still want their social media to be on a single platform and tend to dislike federation
Mastodon folks tend to be in smaller circles and more tech enthused

Features-wise, Mastodon kills the algorithm in favour of chronological timelines and lists, while Bluesky embraces algorithms, allowing people to even make their own algorithms for the platform. Bluesky’s AT Proto uses “DIDs” to identify users, which are associated directly with a domain^[1]. This means that when federation does eventually happen, usernames will just be @my.domain.com instead of ActivityPub’s @actor@my.domain.com.

Federation’s still not enabled so I have no clue how things will look and feel on that front, nor am I familiar enough with the protocol to make any claim about how versatile it is. ActivityPub is flexible enough to be a Twitter clone, a reddit clone, a blogging platform, a youtube clone, a twitch clone, a goodreads clone, or several other formats. AT Proto’s currently only proven to work for a Twitter clone.

You can use this logic to explain away any other ponzi scheme too.

IIRC they backpedalled on that before they released due to the massive backlash

IIRC current twitter blue subscribers see 50% fewer ads than free users.

I can’t imagine there’s many people who even like twitter on the fediverse, much less would like it enough to pay for it.

My mistake, I figured it was easy enough to confuse X as in Twitter with X as in several dozen other tech and tech-adjacent projects.

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I hate them because they invented Proprietary Software at a time that all software code was shared between hobbyists and built upon freely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists#Open_letter

Worst case scenario Ben Shepiro offers them a spot on the Daily Wire.

Presumption of innocence is in law. IANAL.

Ya, I think most do. I never use my phone for web browsing though, personally.

I beat Kingdom Hearts 1 last week, so this week I’m doing Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories! I think I’m about halfway through now, just finishing floor 12 I think, but the battle’s been rough on me to say the least. I think I’m gonna need to grind up some cards and levels today to get past it.

Lemmy needs muting filters so we can just mute anything mentioning Elon Musk

According to UNICEF, the EU has 80 million kids under the age of 18, many of whom will be under 13.
Even if we were to say it was somehow a 50:50 split, that leasts 40 million kids who are potentially to be a part of this data set.
Not all of whom use tiktok of course, but in the absence of data either way, let’s assume they all are.
Is the data of 40 million people worth 345 million EUR?

Is the data of 1 person worth (rounded) $9?

They literally do though to steer the conversation to one wherein they’re a sympathetic figure. Never hear of PR?

Unity: YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND! YOU DON’T KNOW THE FULL STORY
Devs: You’re charging us based on how many times a game gets installed and reinstalled, or opened in streaming services?
Unity: Oh so you do have the full story. What’s wrong with that?

Plainly, whoever’s at the head of this doesn’t understand developers or the industry, and is likely refusing to listen to their subordinates.

Don’t be evil

It is, and that’s why antitrust laws are necessary.