whats funny is that it seems to me that the masto crowd got so obnoxious in the ways they expressed concerns about everything being about opt-in consent that people started to assume that because the way it was expressed was so annoying you could ignore the actual concerns as well RE:
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Bluesky Safety (@safety.bsky.app)
Note that β€œsoft blocking,” or blocking and then immediately unblocking the creator, will not remove you from a list or starter pack. Once you u...
100%, but i think itll take a while for people to settle into this new reality. the framing of 'moving away from twitter' implies that there will be a new single-defining platform that replaces it RE:
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Will JenningsπŸ“‰πŸ—³οΈ (@drjennings.bsky.social)
Our social media future is going to be rather like the recent UK general election: Fragmented. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but we all n...
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there are over 500 youtube videos that have more than 1 billion views only 6 of those videos are less then 4 years old i got curious about the impact of tiktok on music videos, in this seems pretty clear lol
morrigan?!?! RE:
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anyone got any opinion/experience with the veilidchat beta thing? is this something i should keep my eyes on?
this is the real internet shift that is happening: were moving away from 1 global platform to multiple different platforms that are only partially interoperable and largely segregated by various identities RE:
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post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social)
one thing about Bluesky that takes a little adjustment is that Tom Nichols is literally the furthest-right person on the platform [contains quote ...
usually an elon-related signup wave is super spiky, this event seems to follow a somewhat different trajectory usually it starts super spiky and dies down quickly, but this UK wave its been slowly building and the biggest peak so far comes on day 5 or 6 good sign imo RE:
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Samuel (@samuel.fm)
that's a five-minute interval graph, so it's super spikey. we've had sustained growth for a week now
trying to get cancelled on mastodon RE:
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Laurens Hof (@mastodon.laurenshof.online)
Linux is such an unserious ass OS
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it sure says something about our current digital environment that a good sign you're a serious investigative tech journalist if you know all the different ways you can generate nudes of taylor swift [www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24...](
The Verge
X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun
xAI’s new Grok feature is creating a flood of deepfakes.
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The Verge
X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun
xAI’s new Grok feature is creating a flood of deepfakes.
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i think it is underappreciated how influential its been that last fall the verge and the rest of the us tech journalists corpus decided that access to the tech giants was more important and fully settled on threads RE:
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jon.porter (@jonporter.uk)
I've not been keeping up with Bluesky as much after The Verge crew adopted Threads en-masse, but it's interesting dipping in today and discovering ...