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X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Twitter started dying when they closed the API

Bluesky’s is perfectly operational

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Things never change, companies never break promises, shareholders never hold power over decision, people can not be bought

Those would all have to be true in order for anyone to have a reason to put trust into Bluesky.

[–] Foni@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok, if for you the API is the most important thing, go ahead, I'm worried about more companies doing "things" with my data, everyone has their priorities.

P.S. Unlike in BlueSky in Mastodon you can be 100% sure that the API will never be closed, in Bluesky it will depend on variable business interests

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mastodon has protocol level issues that prevent it from being fully mainstream though.

As long as people move out of Twitter, I count it as a win. Especially when we get official government stuff out of there - which won’t happen for the US, but the rest of us have a chance

[–] Foni@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I will count it as a victory when my government's communication channels with me are not private property. A government-owned Mastodon server for official accounts would be logical (the EU already has it even though it barely uses it)