social media platforms are politically aligned places, and being on any of the social media platform is a political act RE:
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POLITICO Europe (@politico.eu)
🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. government under incoming President Donald Trump should intervene to stop the EU from fining American tech companies for br...
the EC really be watching the Musk-Weidel livestream with less than 150 staff members, and think that the most worrying part about Musk influencing EU politics in favor of fascism is the allegation that the DSA is a bit too bureaucratic and ineffective RE:
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Thomas REGNIER (@thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu)
Answering a question on the alleged 150 EU staff members watching the Musk-Weidel livestream on X in just two words: Simply wrong. We have been...
New: Last Week in Bluesky This week's news: - Bluesky reportedly close a new funding round, valuing the company at 700MUSD - Custom Feed builder [@graze.social](
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Graze Social (@graze.social)
Own your algorithm. πŸ‘‰ https://graze.social/ βš™οΈ Need product support? Skip the DMs: https://tinyurl.com/3hcabn8v ✨ Building something c...
 ) discusses monetisation plans, showing how ads might come to bsky - Bluesky's issues with bots [fediversereport.com/last-week-in...](
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Last Week in Bluesky – 2025jan.a
Bluesky rumoured to be valued at 700M USD, adds Trending Topics, Graze talks about how to monetise custom feeds, and a persistent bot problem on Bl...
 ) [Last Week in Bluesky – 2025jan...](
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Last Week in Bluesky – 2025jan.a
Bluesky rumoured to be valued at 700M USD, adds Trending Topics, Graze talks about how to monetise custom feeds, and a persistent bot problem on Bl...
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Bsky's DAU as measured on the firehose is currently 2.4M This measures only active users who like/post/follow someone. Paul's number includes people who log into the app/site but do not otherwise engage. So ~40% of active users do not like/post/follow [bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/b...](
bsky users total (Munin :: edavis.dev :: bskycharts.edavis.dev :: bsky users total)
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Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com)
actually our dau is more like 4m!
 [ bsky users total (Munin :...](
bsky users total (Munin :: edavis.dev :: bskycharts.edavis.dev :: bsky users total)
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Ah, I see that I forgot to account for the fact that EU leaders were all waiting for for permission to just bend the knee to US fascism [www.lemonde.fr/internationa...](https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/01/07/face-a-elon-musk-les-europeens-desunis_6486352_3210.html ) RE:
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Laurens (@laurenshof.online)
Our European leaders are all looking at each other waiting for a (nonexistent) someone else to give them permission to leave X Nor do they seem ca...
 [Face Γ  Elon Musk et ses ingΓ©re...](https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/01/07/face-a-elon-musk-les-europeens-desunis_6486352_3210.html?lmd_medium=al&lmd_campaign=envoye-par-appli&lmd_creation=ios&lmd_source=default ) View quoted note β†’
back to writing again in the new year [fediversereport.com/last-week-in...](
fediversereport.com
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 98
Mastodon's 2023 Annual Report with more insights into the organisation, Surf is a new browser for the social web, and some considerations abou...
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Connected Places (@fediversereport.com)
New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 98 This week's news: - @Mastodon's annual report for 2023 (!) gives more insight into the operation and finances...
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the best part about Mark Cuban becoming a bsky evangelist is that you can now annoy leftists who are still on X by pointing out that a billionaire is legitimately better at praxis than they are RE:
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Mark Cuban (@mcuban.bsky.social)
IF YOU BELIEVE THE MANY SHOULD HAVE CONTROL OVER THE FEW, this is your time. As a decentralized platform, @bsky.app is probably the last, best cha...
i strongly resonate with the idea that it is social technologies that we need, and that it is those technologies that we do not have yet RE:
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malena (@seachanger.bsky.social)
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"Bluesky users are discoursing that ppl cant cook because someone on the nazi platform who writes bang guides crafted good ragebait" seems like a good illustration for [@quinnae.com](
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Katherine Alejandra Cross (@quinnae.com)
Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Edi...
 ) recent article "Bluesky Wont Save Us" [www.liberalcurrents.com/bluesky-wont...](
Liberal Currents
Bluesky Won't Save Us
Like radiation, social media is invisible scientific effluence that leaves us both more knowledgeable and more ignorant of the causes of our own af...
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Ryan Broderick (@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social)
A Verified X user who used to write bang guides about The Philippines posted well-tested rage bait to go viral and Bluesky discourse is downstream ...
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Our European leaders are all looking at each other waiting for a (nonexistent) someone else to give them permission to leave X Nor do they seem capable of realising that if they do not make the decision to leave, Elon will continue escalating his attacks until the decision to leave is made for them RE:
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Jon Worth (@jonworth.eu)
Macron, StΓΈre, Starmer, Scholz - you want to act? LEAVE X Official accounts for all 4 of them, with considerable followings, still on X [contai...