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[โ€“] Blaze@europe.pub 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh, indeed. Ideal would be FOSS, but if people can already stop using the US Big Tech that's still something.

Like people leaving Twitter for Bluesky

[โ€“] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't Bluesky still US big tech?

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is, but at least the CEO does not make Nazi salutes

[โ€“] zonnewin@feddit.nl 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Airowird@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

Yet Musk manages to limbo underneath.

Oh, who am I kidding, he couldn't hit the bar doing his feeble attempt at a jumping jack.

[โ€“] Kualdir@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[โ€“] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Still, it's run by a large American tech company and has a federation model that makes self-hosting and true decentralization somewhere between difficult and impossible.

[โ€“] mitram2@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Not fully open source AFAIK.

[โ€“] Jozav@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The alternative for Tw!ter is Mastodon. Bsky's business model is based on growth, it will be sold for billions to the highest bidder once there are sufficient subscribers locked in.