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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 days ago (3 children)

X will likely merge with TruthSocial as the defacto Conservative/Right-wing social media site (named something dumb like "XTruthXSocialX"), while BlueSky will become the defacto Liberal social media site.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think I used to play Halo 3 with that guy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh yea, he never turned off his mic. Pretty sure I heard his mom come down with tang and Oreos and he cussed her out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

His mom has pretty good tang though 👀👀

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

That would be great - much better than the current situation where twitter is run like a right-wing site but still has people from across the political spectrum hanging out there due to inertia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can you imagine taking X (formerly Twitter) public again with a merger with $DJT? Holy smokes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't jinx it.

Especially not if they somehow coincidentally get some government funding.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure it will, and I don't really want it to. Twitter is a shithole in part because of the userbase. If Twitter dies, the users will move to Bluesky and make that shitty too. I'm already seeing porn bots appearing in my feeds with as small a userbase as there is!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

That's valid, luckily, Threads seems to be taking all the alt right extremists, Mastodon is taking all the programmers, and Bluesky is taking all the furries and LGBTQ

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And I'll be right there with Bluesky, it's so much better on every issue, significantly fewer bots, no ads, no premium version, and no AI

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Yet. Mind you, they are VC-backed. Eventually they will enshittify it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I wouldn't get too excited. Humans as a whole aren't particularly smart and it only takes a small percentage of bad actors and super dipshits to spread misinformation like a cancer no matter what platform you're on.

Our species wasn't prepared for the internet. We should be adding courses to public education teaching how to separate fact from fiction and how to find and utilize reliable sources, but instead we gleefully elected a party that ran on deconstructing the public education system.

Oops.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Not best either

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