Bluesky Passes Threads for Active Website Users, But Confronts 'Scammers and Impersonators' (engadget.com) 122
Bluesky now has more active website users than Threads in the U.S., according to a graph from the Financial Times. And though Threads still leads in app usage, "Prior to November 5 Threads had five times more daily active users in the U.S. than Bluesky... Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger than its rival, Similarweb said."
But "the influx of new users has opened up new opportunities for scammers and impersonators," Engadget reported this week: A recent analysis by Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security Trust and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech found that 44 percent of the top 100 most-followed accounts on Bluesky had at least one "doppelganger," with most looking like "cheap knock-offs of the bigger account, down to the same bio and profile picture," Mantzarlis wrote in his newsletter Faked Up.
The article highlighted issues with Bluesky's loose account verification policies. And then, Bluesky announced a new change-of-policy Friday. Engadget reports: The Bluesky Safety account said that the social media service is removing accounts that are impersonating other people and those squatting on handles... Bluesky now requires parody, satire or fan accounts to label themselves as such in both their handles and their bio. If they don't, or if they only indicate the nature of their account in one of those elements, then they'll be treated as an impersonator and will be removed from the platform. Bluesky now explicitly prohibits identity churning, as well. Accounts that start as impersonators with the purpose of gaining new users, and who then switch to a different identity in an attempt to circumvent the ban, will still get booted off the app. Finally, it says it's exploring "additional options to enhance account verification," though they're not quite ready for rollout.
Bluesky says they've "quadrupled the size of our moderation team, in part to action impersonation reports more quickly. We still have a large backlog of moderation reports due to the influx of new users as we shared previously, though we are making progress." And in addition, "We are working behind the scenes to help many organizations and high-profile individuals set up their verified domain handles."
And there's another problem. "The EU's executive arm on Monday said Bluesky didn't provide information it was required to share under the bloc's Digital Services Act," reports Bloomberg. Bluesky responded that it's working to comply, " consulting with its lawyer to follow the EU's information disclosure rules, a Bluesky spokesperson wrote on Tuesday in an email." "All platforms in the EU have to have a dedicated page on their websites where it says how many user numbers they have in the EU and where they are legally established," Thomas Regnier, the commission's spokesperson on digital matters, told reporters. "This is not the case with Bluesky, so this is not followed...."
Under the DSA, platforms with more than 45 million users in the bloc qualify as "very large online platforms" and need to follow stricter content moderation rules under the commission's supervision. Breaches can result in fines of up to 6% of their global annual sales... Smaller platforms are still required to comply with the law, but are regulated by the EU country where they have a legal presence. That's so far unclear in the case of Bluesky, which was created expressly to avoid a centralized ownership structure.
The commission asked EU member countries' national authorities to investigate "and see if they can find any trace of Bluesky" in their jurisdictions, Regnier said
But "the influx of new users has opened up new opportunities for scammers and impersonators," Engadget reported this week: A recent analysis by Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security Trust and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech found that 44 percent of the top 100 most-followed accounts on Bluesky had at least one "doppelganger," with most looking like "cheap knock-offs of the bigger account, down to the same bio and profile picture," Mantzarlis wrote in his newsletter Faked Up.
The article highlighted issues with Bluesky's loose account verification policies. And then, Bluesky announced a new change-of-policy Friday. Engadget reports: The Bluesky Safety account said that the social media service is removing accounts that are impersonating other people and those squatting on handles... Bluesky now requires parody, satire or fan accounts to label themselves as such in both their handles and their bio. If they don't, or if they only indicate the nature of their account in one of those elements, then they'll be treated as an impersonator and will be removed from the platform. Bluesky now explicitly prohibits identity churning, as well. Accounts that start as impersonators with the purpose of gaining new users, and who then switch to a different identity in an attempt to circumvent the ban, will still get booted off the app. Finally, it says it's exploring "additional options to enhance account verification," though they're not quite ready for rollout.
Bluesky says they've "quadrupled the size of our moderation team, in part to action impersonation reports more quickly. We still have a large backlog of moderation reports due to the influx of new users as we shared previously, though we are making progress." And in addition, "We are working behind the scenes to help many organizations and high-profile individuals set up their verified domain handles."
And there's another problem. "The EU's executive arm on Monday said Bluesky didn't provide information it was required to share under the bloc's Digital Services Act," reports Bloomberg. Bluesky responded that it's working to comply, " consulting with its lawyer to follow the EU's information disclosure rules, a Bluesky spokesperson wrote on Tuesday in an email." "All platforms in the EU have to have a dedicated page on their websites where it says how many user numbers they have in the EU and where they are legally established," Thomas Regnier, the commission's spokesperson on digital matters, told reporters. "This is not the case with Bluesky, so this is not followed...."
Under the DSA, platforms with more than 45 million users in the bloc qualify as "very large online platforms" and need to follow stricter content moderation rules under the commission's supervision. Breaches can result in fines of up to 6% of their global annual sales... Smaller platforms are still required to comply with the law, but are regulated by the EU country where they have a legal presence. That's so far unclear in the case of Bluesky, which was created expressly to avoid a centralized ownership structure.
The commission asked EU member countries' national authorities to investigate "and see if they can find any trace of Bluesky" in their jurisdictions, Regnier said
I thought ... (Score:2, Informative)
Bluesky now has more active website users than Threads
I don't think politics is the driving factor (Score:2, Flamebait)
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Twitter is just so full of pussy pics in bio bots and neo Nazis and snuff films.
That's only the Media Matters fiction [cnbc.com] version of Twitter. You are not going to find those things unless you specifically go looking for them.
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Exactly. The only neo-nazi's I've seen are those times Harry Sisson and his Democrat youth team put on BRAND NEW shiny swastika gear to march and pretend they are part of MAGA.
So I follow a lot of retro gamers (Score:2)
It doesn't really matter because the advertisers will come back for the sake of funneling money to powerful men. But the site itself is dead. It's just going to be a money laundering operation in 12 months. And if you are a member of the right wing then you can get your daily dose over
Re:I don't think politics is the driving factor (Score:4, Interesting)
All this, lads, and because:
1. Transition to Bsky has started and is ongoing, wish it luck to stay for the cause of the freedoms.
2. More, than any issues with the moderation, former Twitter, current X, as in crossed-out at a killing task, is suffering rape of the algorithm - my timeline "for you" feed is drown in misfits, opposite to my personal interests - ruZZian, anti-Israel, MAGA propaganda, something ruZZian troll factories are or would-be producing. Marking not being interested and irrelevant does not lead to any improvement. Algorithm death is the slaughter of the platform.
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You get what you engage with and you [like most people] are probably more likely to comment to argue than agree. They really should dial that back. I think part of the reason it is turned up is they need to farm more ad views because of the left-wing boycotts for free speech.
That said the claims of material being russian, maga being propaganda, pro-ukraine, etc are mostly misinformation and you are more likely to see the truth on X. This causes cognitive dissonance for people who've been taken for a ride by
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Your assumptions are fundamentally wrong and to be discarded because of a single fact - this happens out of sudden, platform becomes rigged at some time, for some period. May be made permanent, sure.
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"this happens out of sudden, platform becomes rigged at some time, for some period. May be made permanent, sure."
Obviously we don't agree on everything but to be clear this isn't a dig or slam; I can't parse this.
My best guess as to what you are trying to say again comes from what I see on the platform. The impact hits heavy and then after a time it backs up or even reverses for awhile?
I just think that is the algorithm not being very smooth in its steering... take the four hours it gave you stuff you wante
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You do not properly account the severity of the interference. I see it clearly in time, when platform shifts into propaganda overdrive - upon that, I am flooded with the content, which is irrelevant to me, which I do oppose. There is no point or possibility to argue against the flood. Sometimes I do the work marking, as mentioned above, then my timeline consists of clusters in tens of records one after another, promising I will see less content like this, yet half an hour will not pass, as those same entrie
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Twitter is just so full of pussy pics in bio bots and neo Nazis and snuff films
I might have to join X now. Or is this content free?
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"Twitter is just so full of pussy pics in bio bots and neo Nazis and snuff films"
As a regular X user I can tell you get your opinion from your left wing echochamber rather than personal experience. There is less censorship of political views and more lax enforcement of politically correct speech and otherwise it is moderated more or less the same as any other platform.
Roll back the clock to 2010 before woke and critical theories of social justice took over and most every respectable platform looked akin to
Re:I don't think politics is the driving factor (Score:5, Informative)
As a regular X user I can tell you get your opinion from your left wing echochamber rather than personal experience. There is less censorship of political views and more lax enforcement of politically correct speech and otherwise it is moderated more or less the same as any other platform.
Evidence suggests otherwise.
https://qz.com/elon-musk-x-twi... [qz.com]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/m... [forbes.com]
https://www.theverge.com/2024/... [theverge.com]
https://fortune.com/2023/06/21... [fortune.com]
Maybe you live in an echo chamber as well.
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So you have links showing a blocked illegal document that all other news outlets also refused to publish and that government censorship requests are up?
That is a whole lot of links which contradict nothing I've said.
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Errr you're literally able to test this. I know it won't achieve the same result as an ad hominem attack, but really what you say is irrelevant since your "free speech" platform will automatically hide your post (and tell you it hid your post) if you do so much as post the word "cisgender" in any context what so ever.
This isn't doing research on vaccines. You don't need a science degree to understand a complex paper here. Literally any moron with a single digit IQ can verify some of the things in those link
Re:I don't think politics is the driving factor (Score:5, Insightful)
There is heavy censorship of left and progressive politics. Musk banned the word "cis", for crying out loud.
The fact that a lot of people have left the platform seems to have helped it lurch even further right, as there just aren't the users there to post counter arguments or do community notes.
It's become a huge hard right echo chamber.
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"There is heavy censorship of left and progressive politics."
No, there is more balanced moderation of left and progressive politics. But I understand how it can feel that way when you are used to such privilege and repression of opposing narratives. When I argue with left/progressives I get a giant feed of nothing but that because I engaged, it is definitely NOT censoring them but rather failing to give them an advantage.
"Musk banned the word "cis", for crying out loud."
It's a slur for someone who isn't men
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Re: I don't think politics is the driving factor (Score:2)
Mod this up please.
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The cool thing is that with Trump in the POTUS seat he can deny immunity for official acts and privilege to the intelligence officials/prosecutors/leo who were involved in it all.... they derive those from him.
Didn't realize POTUS was part of the judicial branch. Everything else you wrote is spot on, but lets not get carried away here. I think you need to reread what qualified immunity means. All that means is that the president can fire officials, but that doesn't mean they can be prosecuted. Comey, as an example, was never prosecuted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
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Even if you are daft enough to think that cis is a slur, surely Mr. Free Speech Absolutionist shouldn't have it automatically limit visibility of posts containing it. If calling someone all kinds of racial and misogynistic slurs, if posting "your body, my choice", if people can have swastikas in their avatars, how can you possibly argue that using the word cis is somehow a step too far and must be censored?
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He probably does not know what cis means or cisgender means.
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Supporting the right of a company to moderate its platform, or censor, as you call it, is not the same as drinking the kool-aid you demand where we all pretend that that there isn't political, erm, moderation, on X now.
i.e., "Musk Saved Free Speech", is a fucking weird ass anti-factual cult saying.
That's what the beef is with, not that dude moderates/censors his platform.
You seem like a bot (Score:2)
Remember what George Carlin said, it's a big club and you ain't in it.
And when those tariffs hit and inflation spikes and the Federal reserve cranks interest rates causing mass layo
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Messages is hopeless but I don't really see any other spam on X.
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The owner bans people who disagree with him and (Score:2)
call him Elonia and question his 'gender affirming' jawline.
Interesting to point out someone else in an echo chamber while so deep in your own. That you think there is less censorship shows where you stand - what you meant to say is less censorship of shit you agree with.
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As a regular X user I can tell you get your opinion from your left wing echochamber rather than personal experience.
That might actually be the funniest thing I've ever read on this site.
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Strange, I don't see any scams on BlueSky. I don't go on twitter much these days, but when I do it's full of crypto and fake news.
Musk recently changed it to heavily down-rank posts with links in them, which really helped the fake news stuff get promoted over stuff that comes with sources.
Some of the more prominent conservative accounts seems to have had Community Notes disabled for them, and notes pointing out issues with right wing talking points often get deleted.
It's got far worse since the election, ev
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The easiest marks, the ones eating up all the conspiracies and buying the Ivermectin won't leave. The ones that try, because they are starved of their primitive drive to 'own the libs', will wither up and die from lack of the oxygen they need. X will largely become like Slashdot, where conservatives have sorta killed real engagement through bullying and misinformation. With a much better user driven moderation system, it will be difficult for actual scammers and miscreants of misinformation to survive, l
Re:I thought ... (Score:4, Interesting)
Its not just the politics, its the atmosphere in X is just straight up poisonous now. People are incredibly hostile there over politics. And like, yeah I get it , the americans just had a pretty acrimonious election, but for the once, (unlikely now) 70+ percent of the sites users that are not american, it got pretty frusturating to have a situation where almost any given conversation would innevitably get invaded by spammers with blue ticks ranting about american politics.
My mother, solidly in the boomer category, used to use twitter to talk about genealogy and her favorite soap and reality tv stars but quit in frusturation a year ago because she would see almost any conversation, whether it was about the latest antics of the kardashians, or about migrations of norwegian settlers in the 1500s get bombed by hostile political people yelling at people and calling stranger "fags" or "commies" or whatever. Of course she got out.
She's moved to threads, place seems pretty boomery, fairly polite, she's happy there. I moved to Bsky, because I've set my feed to game developers, software engineers, dungeons and dragons fan art creators (No AI slop so far!) and prog rock fans, and......thats all I'm getting. No people yelling at me about american poltics, no antivaxers shouting at me because I'm vaccinated, just polite folks discussing software engineering, their favorite genesis albums and youngsters doing impressive drawings of drizzt. Perfect.
Im sure there are people yelling at each other about politics on there, but I didnt opt into it, so its not showing me that, just like I want.
obligatory (Score:1)
So how does it compare to Mastodon? (Score:1)
Then again Mastodon and bluesky look to have attracted the biggest scum of the internet.
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F U, Maganderthal
The Gnomian plan for Bluesky (Score:2, Insightful)
2. Somehow get all the users.
3. Find a way to ban or sabotage X
4. Profit!
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> Do exactly what had the old Twitter losing money.
What's the "right" way to run Twitter?
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Twitter was profitable for a couple of years before the pandemic, when ad spending was cut massively.
Musk reduced income by over 85% in the first year. Cost cuts caused the site to become unstable, and his poor decisions lead to many users leaving it. A lot of "anchor" users went, large accounts that kept other users coming back. I don't just mean influences and the like, I mean people like Technology Connections, important people in Open Source, insightful journalists, people who provided real value.
Just like Daddy! (Score:2)
So it's becoming like X already.
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Is that where you get your "dates"?
How long before (Score:2)
There are so many antisocial media companies come and gone, all of the good names get used up, and the new sites are forced to use names like "Hbviv" and "Zxytxi"?
(I'm in the US and never heard of "Blue Sky" till now and there seems to be lots of fly by night anti social media companies these days).
No thanks. (Score:2)
Bluesky and Opensource (Score:4, Interesting)
1. Bluesky is a public benefit company (they can legally prioritize keeping their data open over profits)
2. Bluesky is federated (can bridge with other federated systems)
3. Uses the open-source AT protocol
I'm much more excited about these things than the rest of the plafform
Bluecry is more like it (Score:1, Troll)
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Enlighten us- where do you get your talking points, since it's obvious the sentence wasn't composed by you.
Well for starters it's a technology site (Score:5, Insightful)
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You know what's also technology? Toilet paper. Yet when was the last time slashdot covered pissing matches between toilet paper companies? The closest we've ever gotten is how you only use slashdot for that, and everything that didn't wipe off stays forever mashed into your chair.
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You know what's also technology? Toilet paper. Yet when was the last time slashdot covered pissing matches between toilet paper companies? The closest we've ever gotten is how you only use slashdot for that, and everything that didn't wipe off stays forever mashed into your chair.
To be fair if bog roll somehow got a technological evolution or something we'd probably hear about it here (about a day late and then a bunch of times). Do you expect daily submissions of wheel still wheeling articles too?
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Yet when was the last time slashdot covered pissing matches between toilet paper companies?
I'm guessing never, but honestly, I'm here for it. Sounds like a welcome change.
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And this is technology.
No, this issue is pure politics.
Twitter being owned by right-wing billionaire has tremendous impact on our daily lives...
Try lying less so you won't get community notes quite as often.
Two enormous new technology platforms (Score:2)
Twitter only became political when musk realized he couldn't make the site profitable because of a combination of his own terrible negotiating skills during the purchase and his general lack of competence. We have literall
Re: Well for starters it's a technology site (Score:2)
"Try lying less so you won't get community notes quite as often."
Leon should try that. So far all he's tried is removing community notes from his tweets when they are especially damning.
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Who owns Twitter has ZERO impact on our lives. You could never visit the site and be perfectly fine. This goes for ALL social media.
Re: Well for starters it's a technology site (Score:2)
I never visit Washington DC but that doesn't stop things that happening there from affecting me.
Twitter used to be a haven for independent journalism before Leon bought it. That's how his ownership has affected the masses. Luckily those people have now moved to Bluesky.
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Twitter being owned by right-wing billionaire has tremendous impact on our daily lives
Not really.
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Twitter being owned by right-wing billionaire has tremendous impact on our daily lives and we're too old to pretend it doesn't.
The unbearably funny part is the contrast.
2020 leftists - "Private companies can do whatever they want! Especially if they voluntarily censor for us!"
Leftists when Elon bought X - "{random conniption fits}"
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"Private companies can do what they want" and "Elon is a racist asshole doing stupid shit" are not contradictory positions.
OTOH, Musk's "I'm a free speech absolutist" and his "I'm suing people who won't advertise with me" are contradictory.
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"Muck also said we was gonna get rid of all the bots but some estimates put the ratio as high as 1 bot for every 2 human users."
Not bad considering it was more like 100 bots to every humans when he started.
"As long as you don't want to talk about anything Elon doesn't like."
I talk about things Elon doesn't like all the time.
Re: Well for starters it's a technology site (Score:1)
Cis is a slur meant to demean people on the grounds of their gender or sexuality. It is hatespeech.
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That's complete bullshit, but you knew that. It's an identifier, nothing more.
But acknowledging it as such would require that you acknowledge that different people are still people, and that would require strength.
Elon's just upset that his trans kid hates him, and his using his platform to promote trans hatred. You don't have to join in.
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There are mentally ill people who hold delusions related to gender and believe it can be wrong. They have a whole twisted framework to rationalize this which was constructed from domain specific terms like 'gender identity' in order to discuss different flavors of this psychosis with nuance.
These poor individuals developed a term for literally everyone who is well, normal, and doesn't have this mental illness. A slur for those who don't share their delusions, "CIS."
What does this nonsense have to do with LG
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"Of course it is not"
There is no 'of course' to this except that the DSM is bullshit. It isn't like gay sex suddenly became a valid way to procreate... social norms just shifted and magically gay people weren't ill, nothing had changed, no new data, and no new evidence. Two big things got cleared up imho. First people realized that gay and pedophile weren't the same. REAL Pedophiles are attracted to people they can't procreate with as well and frequently people of the same sex so it wasn't as big a stretch
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The LGB communities (of which Iâ(TM)m apart) didnâ(TM)t get a say in adding the rest of the alphabet
So who gets a say about adding the rest of the alphabet to slashdot?
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Nobody identifies as "cis". Nobody calls themselves "cis". Nobody has asked to be called "cis".
Its a slur meant to make the normal unnormal.
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Plenty of people call themselves cis. ...
Just go to a dating site, where you can pick from a drop down box
I see plenty of girls defining themselves as cisgender.
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So they have a choice between gay or cis?
Don't use those kind of dating sites.
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Cis has nothing to do with Gay.
The opposite of gay is straight.
Gay and straight means you desire one of the physical same sex, or opposite sex, or you are bi and want both.
Cisgender means you are born in the body you appear to be in. Unlike transgender which means you changed your appearance.
So you could be a cis gender male, who is gay looking for males.
Or you could be a transgender male (who used to be a female), who is gay and looking for males.
Some people are pretty strange, they are transgender and gay
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Now that *is* a word Elon allows on Twitter.
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Cis is a slur meant to demean people on the grounds of their gender or sexuality. It is hatespeech.
I thought that was a joke, but apparently there's impetus [fortune.com]. It might be a joke there, too.
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Yes it is.
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The prefix cis- comes from Latin and means "on the same side as" or "of". It is often used in contrast to the prefix trans-, which means "on the other side of" or "beyond".
It's as much a slur as "homosexual" is, which it isn't.
You're upset that a thing you consider "normal" has been assigned a label, nothing more.
By all accounts pre-musk (Score:2)
You talk about things Lord musk doesn't like because you are beneath his notice. If you actually had any followers on your Twitter account then he would silence you. Your ability to s
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That's what they reported to the SEC, and it aligned with NOBODY's honest assessment and it was inconsistent with what Musk found during his assessment of the company.
"Researchers" There were clown "researchers" claiming the site was filled with right wing propaganda during the pre-musk phase where it now PROVEN the site was directly working in collusion with liberal bureaucrats in violation of the first amendment and mass shadowbanning conservative views.
Musk argued the massive quantity of bots they disclo
Re:Well for starters it's a technology site (Score:5, Informative)
Thank god Elon bought X and saved free speech.
You needed to add a </satire> tag.
Bizarrely, there are people who actually think this is true.
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LOL. /. poster: 'Musk has made it a right wing echo chamber! Grrr! Angryface!' /. commissars: TROLL -1, angryface!
Me: 'well it was a left-wing echo chamber before...(proof)'
You guys are fucking hilarious. Thanks for being you, YOU & YOUR ILK ARE PART OF THE REASON TRUMP WON.
Re: Well for starters it's a technology site (Score:2)
Your proof is not proof.. If I weren't on my phone or had more than a couple of minutes I would post one of the many citations which show that even before Leon Twitter amplified right wing speech more than left.
Re:Well for starters it's a technology site (Score:5, Insightful)
Thank god Elon bought X and saved free speech.
What free speech? I can guarantee if I posted this [tumblr.com] or this [imgur.com], he'd immediately have them removed. And remember how he whined that he was in "danger" by having his jet flights posted 24 hours AFTER he made them even though that information is publicly available in real time? Remember how he said he'd prevent people from being doxxed on Twitter? Yeah, about that umbrage [cnn.com].
But you are right in one respect. He is a great liar, which is free speech. So much so, even Grok says so [imgur.com].
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Re: Well for starters it's a technology site (Score:2)
Your this and that are sexual in nature. Which other somes would allow those? Threads? Facebook? TikTok? Instagram?
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Your this and that are sexual in nature. Which other somes would allow those? Threads? Facebook? TikTok? Instagram?
The first came from Tumblr, the second from Imgur. Any other questions?
Re: Well for starters it's a technology site (Score:2)
Twitter's current ToS explicitly allows adult content.
It doesn't matter what other sites do even a little. What matters is whether Twitter does what Leon says it does. And it does not.
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Look at this graph [pcmag.com]. That is something that doesn't happen every day. When growth is shooting up like that, things go fast.
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Oh yeah, from nothing to all the real living liberals.
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The Chinese. They were complaining that the exodus from Twitter is affecting their ability to influence US citizens. Presumably Russia feels the same way.
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Tech news?
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Usually when you hear "tech" you're thinking cutting edge technology instead of old shit, like say toilet paper. But then perhaps, just like rsilvergun, you're just old shit, and you're still awestruck by all the things social media can do. I suppose that explains why there's always brown streaks on your iphone.
Re:The fuck? (Score:4, Interesting)
Who the fuck actually uses this crap besides teenieboppers and people with sticks up their asses?
Bluesky looks set to replace Twitter, so the answer to your question is "basically everyone".
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Bluesky looks set to replace Twitter.
LOL. No. This is a fantasy. Their user count will increase for a bit, and then the famous names will go right back to X. Because that's where the users are. And famous people have to have attention.
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Several scientists in my field post about new publications, upcoming conferences, new developments, etc. on Bluesky now.
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If all the lefty snowflakes want to retreat to their safe space, that's fine with me. If Bluesky serves as fly paper for the mentally ill, so much the better for the rest of us.
Re: The fuck? (Score:2)
Cuckservatives on Twitter are currently alternating between declaring victory over driving liberals off of Twitter and crying about how unfair it is that they left because they a) don't actually believe in free association and b) have no life beyond trolling people who care about other people. We are building great block lists to help other users ignore their trolling on Bluesky, while Leon has compromised blocking to help them troll on Twitter. And just look how well that's working for him, users are defec
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Re: The fuck? (Score:2)
His rants are centrist and you have lost the ability to recognize what is or is not radical because you have been radicalized to think that sustainability is a neoliberal* plot.
* The prefix "neo-" does a lot of work these days as a replacement for the word "not", which is irritating but true.