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Thanks dude. I got set up. Actually I think this instance might be a better fit anyways. Todon is anti ML? Like wut???

Any body have a todon.nl invite? I’m on bluesky but I’m so over corporate social media and want to try mastodon.

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This is absolutely right. I work in the biz (not google) and we don’t decide what things are named. We just ingest sources. Very rarely do we make manual edits such as this. It’s not like we have a department sitting around deciding what all the bajillion things in a map are named. If the US decides that something is named something, that’s what we ingest.

This is the exact nonsense that gets people all worked up and fighting and wasting their energy, while we have oligarchs planning our demise.

Ole Two-Tap Obama. Nah, I’m good.

Any good Marxist pixelfed instances?

Banned at my work. I told my boss and he’s like “good that the company protects us from that”. 😞

Damn near every thread just feels like bots posting based on sentiment. One day, ever user loves idea XYZ but the very same topic on the next day every user hates idea XYZ. None of it feels organic or genuine. Once I learned about dead internet theory and read Manufacturing Consent, it’s easy to see how the vast majority of social media is just nonsense bs

I pulled that figure out of my ass, but it’s definitely high, likely way higher than people realize.

I’m all for banning oligarchic media (news, social, etc). The dude sig heiled and literally controlled the social media narrative to further his political agenda, and people are like “buT MY fReE sPeACH!”. Also, I can’t even read those posts since they require you to log in.

The Jakarta Method

Manufacturing Consent (and/or the follow up Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent)

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Are you joking or being serious?

I’m quoting actual data instead of just vague hand-waving. 1 million users leaving (actually deleting their accounts) and more simply not using the app anymore is not nothing. DAU is down, revenue is down, … people leaving matters.

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it’s gonna implode … twitter is still around and now Musk is even more politically powerful

The platform has lost over 1 million users and global active users has gone down. Musk’s political power/will was inevitable. He’s an oligarch in a capitalist society, 'nuff said.

It kind of reminds me of how ppl were hyping up mastadon, blue sky, etc. and honestly who really uses those sites?

Objectively: many. Bluesky has 27 million users and 3.5 million daily active users. No idea about Mastedon.

There’s also the language barrier, like are ppl actually gonna seriously try to learn Chinese?

That doesn’t seem to stop my partner from using it and enjoying the content.

I just see this as a media hype cycle that will die down in a week or two

Yea, maybe. A lot of people are just pissed off at the establishment, for many reasons that they can’t put their finger on quite yet. People are downloading this app as a retaliation to whatever nonsense legislation is being passed. Some will stick around, some won’t. The people pissed about the ban aren’t eager to start being active on IG/Threads/X/whatever else because it’s all just the same crap owned by oligarchs, full of mis-/dis-information and toxicity.

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