X is a right-wing propaganda platform now. Bluesky is not a good alternative though. It's just as controlled and toxic as X was just before Elan bought it and will eventually become what X is now when a major corporation or rich person decides to grab it or it goes public. The federation functionality is just for show and marketing. I wish people would stop just jumping when platforms become truly horrible and then jumping to something that will be made as horrible very easily after it becomes popular enough.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2025
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USE THE FEDIVERSE YOU FLIPPING POO-HEADS
Ok, yes, but can we fix the issue where my Lemmy account takes like 10 seconds to load the main subbed feed? The more subs I add, the slower it gets. I got someone to try Lemmy, but they're rightfully put off by how slow it can be sometimes.
No but see that's not corporate and you have to choose a server when you sign up which is haaaaaaard!
I think we should advertise individual servers instead of the fediverse as a whole
Yes but then what corporate master can I beg to and be met with silence when they eventually fuck me? Corporations fucking me is kind of my entire sexuality. How will it enshittify? I'm sorry but this all seems too much for me.
what
I'm trying to get into the mind of, like, a Facebook user.
This!!! Why don't these reprobates go on Mastodon!
The fediverse is hostile to 'professionals', and missing several features bluesky has, it is not a good replacement for them.
Couldn't there be an association of professional societies that run their own mastodon instance and can control membership and federation?
Sure, it would likely get very heavily defederated from or attacked, but it could happen.
By 'professionals', do we mean Only Fans content creator? I haven't tried hard enough to find them, but I assumed they're here?
I follow many professional scientists and librarians on the Fediverse.
Beyond that - well those are the three professions that I trust to carry society.
I don't see a ton of updates from plumbers and auto mechanics yet, but I think that is just adoption patterns at play?
People who want to run businesses through social media, Etsy sellers, artists for hire, youtubers, subreddits as a customer service avenue.
No, we meant all professionals, we have seen journalists and actors be attacked. We aren't judging whether that was correct or not, just stating that is something which happens.
Edit: We just don't really believe in the concept of professionalism beyond it meaning someone gets paid for something. Thus the ' '.
Bluesky, which they view as more useful, welcoming, and aligned with their goals.
For now, maybe.
For real. They just can't stop banning people.
And it's alredy full of trackers.
Thankfully you can just use another instance.
I cannot find any other instances, do you happen to have a list or could point me in a direction? (I know you could host your own instance with this: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds )
There's a few, not too many at the moment because most people just host a 1-person pds.
I can't find a post I remember seeing with a bunch of them listed, but I can say that I remember that blacksky runs their own pds and relay, and it's open signup
Can you elaborate on their use of the ban hammer of injustice?
I don't use it, so I'm unaware of any dramas, but mass banning sounds interesting.
They banned a bunch of people including Jessie Gender (now reinstated) for mild criticism of the Harry Potter author.
They banned people for posting old (public domain) short films for fictional violence.
There was another ban wave when people were criticizing the hateful words spoken by that one guy who was violently killed.
There's an explicit promise of an upcoming wave of noncon artists. (I'm personally not a fan of such art but don't think they should be banned)
Some people have been reinstated, but the explicit focus on limiting speech has a real chilling effect.
I'm positive I've missed some from longer ago.
I think there were also some cases were Turkish accounts that criticised the Turkish government were banned, iirc.
I'm noticing what's not on that list. Wonderful.
They do still tend to ban hate speech. I didn't mention it because it's been like that since the start.
That was great, things for sharing!
I don't understand how so many people are comfortable voluntarily subjecting themselves to nazi propaganda and rule. The nazi-saluter all but literally has a dial that amplifies the most fervent to the expense of everyone else
Huh.
Seems like there's a weekly article about how it's dead or an echo chamber because there's less tolerance for hatred.
Guess not.
There are not that many things I dislike hearing more than people saying "Formerly Twitter". Either call it Twitter or X, but everyone knows what's going on..
jup… just call ot twitter