They’ll just make it a crime and pretend you were wrong all along. We’re not playing by moral rules anymore.

People have been conditioned to throw away perfectly good shit, now we are surprised they throw away shit. This policy is obviously not gonna fix the issue on its own, but as you said, it’s welcome.

I think their initial selling point was that Eventually©®™ Bluesky would federate with the rest of the Fediverse.

Is anybody really surprised that a social media corporation didn’t make it their utmost priority to allow their userbase to connect out of their proprietary platform?

This was always bait to keep people using corporate social media instead of decentralizing. I am not sorry for the users one bit.

Forced by Harvard university? :)

I have no issues believing that number because the Chinese standard of living has been rising substantially as the decades go. That is trivial to confirm.

You’re the one who should be more skeptical of anything that comes from the US. As it stands you don’t believe anything that comes from China, but believe anything that comes from the US about China.

Sounds like you should start applying more neutral standards to how you process information. The world isn’t that black or white.

Yeah yeah, keep telling yourself that buddy.

I’m sure you also used that cope when Harvard university (that well-known Chinese university) found 95.5% of Chinese people are happy with their government, compared to only 38% of USians.

People on Lemmy are really good at seeing past capitalist propaganda, except when it comes to China. At that point it’s just straight up US state department talking points.

Cool. Is anything gonna happen? No? Then who cares. Just smoke and mirrors.

It will take way longer for them to shut down all individual servers than it takes them to ask 1 company to shut down all posts.

Not to mention the dissent that arrises from one server being asked to shut down, how many others would suddenly start hosting anti-turkey regime stuff.

Its like piracy: you can’t really shut it down. Even if Turkey would make accessing the fediverse illegal, people would still use VPNs.

Had me in the first half xD

It’s opt-in in the same way the Co-pilot that one day just appeared installed on your computer was opt-in. /s

Its not like there isn’t a backlash against Android either. There’s a reason why projects like GrapheneOS exist.

No worries, I also started test driving Linux a month ago in preparation for when Windows 10 stops being officially supported.

Same on lemmy… Yet, here we are? I’d call that a win.

I’d rather have a bunch of smaller dudes hosting servers than yet another US multinational that will use their money to destroy democracies around the world.

You’re right. The effort of writing 2 sentences to promote a platform some people may not have checked out in some time, if at all, was definitely wasted. I’ll remember that next time.

Its good to know this will be optional in Europe. But at this point, do I even care?

2025 will be the year that Linux will see an influx of users, and it will all be due to Microsoft’s anti-consumer practices.

Not sure if you were joking but Mastodon has substantially more users than Lemmy.

Averaging 1 million users/month versus Lemmy’s 50k.

Don’t replace X with Bluesky! Go to Mastodon and other Federalised platforms. That is the only way to escape corporate-sponsored fascism.

I highly encourage you to. 🏴‍☠️

There’s no way to believe that phones have less cultural push than AM radio had pre-1990.

I mean, you can believe whatever you want, but the answer is yes there is.

You should watch the series Adolescence, btw. It deals with this exact topic. Its 4 episodes long and it shows how social media and constant connection and more importantly INTERACTION with everyone, has an effect that is fundamentally different from passively listening to AM radio.