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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand new protocol called AT which promises to let users not only create their own instances of the service, but filter their feeds with custom algorithms, instead of settling for one centrally-controlled “master algorithm” that prioritizes engagement above all else.

Am I fucking crazy, or do people just pluck information out of thin air, without any fact checking and call themselves senior journalists? Does she hold any investment in Bluesky?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does she hold any investment in BlueSky?

Imo, it's way more likely she got her information about BS from the website/a press release/a contact at BS and like you said, didn't bother to get a contrasting opinion from anyone associated with Mastodon (probably because it's a lot harder to get ahold of someone from a distributed project like Mastodon).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So she got BS from BS, what a surprise... This kind of "journalism" drives me nuts, more and more medias owned by idiots with too much money promotes these kind of crap with zero nuance and fact checking :/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So she got BS from BS

To be fair, my guess about the source of those claims is also totally unsubstantiated and quite possibly bullshit 😉

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This was something I missed from reddit, the always relevant xkcd