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You cannot put "bastion of truth" and "X" in the same sentence.
probably a typo. probably meant to say 'truth according to me, not them'.
Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
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> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro? The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge." Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.
I remember reading that reddit created fake users to make the site appear more popular than it was. AFAIK they never got sued. I doubt they're the only platform doing that.
Reddit did astroturf, but they didn't report numbers based on it IIRC. A different time two decades ago, of course.
Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro? The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge." Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.
I read the article. When and how did Rose Wang reported the numbers? Over the phone? E-mail? Shows us the graph. The trends. At least something. I'm personally no longer buying the "increase in hate speech on X".
Probably some internal dashboard using Tableau. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
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It seems like conservatives suffered bad-faith censorship about as often as other groups. Virtually all examples I've seen are either legitimate (an expression of a "conservative viewpoint" broke politically-neutral rules of discourse), or are admitted mistakes (which happen to everybody, though conservatives might be disproportionately affected because they tend to skirt the line more - sometimes by nature and sometimes as a provocation tactic). In fact, Musk's messaging seems to be more favorable of censorship, though I'm not sure if the bias in actual practice now is stronger than before, or merely as strong (i.e. a little bit).
Also, your tone is superior, which is a flaw we normally associate with liberals, and I'm seeing this shift more. This seems related.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read the article. When and how did Rose Wang reported the numbers? Over the phone? E-mail? Shows us the graph. The trends. At least something. I'm personally no longer buying the "increase in hate speech on X".
Probably some internal dashboard using Tableau. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
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Agreed, it's a really fun community. I hope it lasts
The only thing keeping me around as someone who never comments or tweets, is that there are some great local accounts (to me) like weather, police, news, concerts, etc... Any chance these move over? I'm not looking for some great community, I just enjoy timely posts I guess.
Its weird how all these useful local info accounts end up being dependent on platforms that promote noise makers and attention cravers.
Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
#37My complaint about Bluesky is that it is too much like twitter.
Admittedly I ran into less straight forward combativeness and that’s nice.
But still the content was just as inane and hot take heavy.
Granted I accept that “pretty much another twitter” is what the users want.
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#39Unlike previous attempts for groups of people trying to leave Twitter/X post-Elon acquisition for a competitor social network but failed due to the difficulty of getting all their friends to also switch, this time it might actually stick. Even before the election results on Tuesday, the vibes on X have been steadily been getting worse from my perspective, and the fact that Musk will get more power and influence from…
Ehhh, at this point people have been predicting the downfall of X/Twitter for so long such predictions feel a bit meaningless.
Twitter was always terrible and I was hopeful Elon’s mismanagement would finally destroy it, but I think its clear that its never going anywhere.
Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro? The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge." Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.
I read the article. When and how did Rose Wang reported the numbers? Over the phone? E-mail? Shows us the graph. The trends. At least something. I'm personally no longer buying the "increase in hate speech on X".
>I'm personally no longer buying the "increase in hate speech on X".
I certainly don't need a news article to tell me that--it's immediately evident upon login.
It benefits certain narcissistic billionaires to entangle themselves with the political identities of millions of people so that reality-blocking cognitive dissonance forms in response to even the most basic criticism.