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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

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raxxorraxor wrote: post #261
JustExAWS wrote: post #173

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Once you take on investors, that’s not an option. VCs expect rapid growth and an exit - statistically through acquisition, but occasionally an IPO. Once you go public, then you have investor pressure and can be subject to activist investors unless the founder has controlling interests like in the case of Meta and Google.

Basically why I don't like to work for any public company anymore. You are there to be exploited by moneyed interests that most often don't even have any positive effect on the products itself.

It doesn’t matter if the company is public or not. If the company has outside investors, you are in the same position.

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Post by jasonvorhe »

weakfish wrote: post #303
jasonvorhe wrote: post #301

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2024: > More than 155 million people cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election. It's second only in U.S. history to the 2020 election. Turnout in 2024 represented 63.9% of eligible voters, the second-highest percentage in the last 100 years, according to the University of Florida Election Lab. The only year that beat it – again – was 2020 when universal mail-in voting was more widely available. 2020: > More than…

The simpler and much more likely answer, my friend, is that people didn’t vote from a combination of disillusionment, assuming Kamala would win, and likewise factors. I saw many people close to me not bother voting because they didn’t enjoy Biden’s presidency, despite voting for him in 2020. So, I find that FAR more likely as a reason than supposed election fraud.

I'm really confused how tech people shifted from "voting machines are inherently insecure" to simply ignoring the issue despite many political connections between Democrats and voting machine vendors. I'll stick with the results of my research into the matter. If you think you're well enough informed and that your sources actually care about the truth, let's agree to disagree.

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Post by meowface »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #312
weakfish wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The simpler and much more likely answer, my friend, is that people didn’t vote from a combination of disillusionment, assuming Kamala would win, and likewise factors. I saw many people close to me not bother voting because they didn’t enjoy Biden’s presidency, despite voting for him in 2020. So, I find that FAR more likely as a reason than supposed election fraud.

I'm really confused how tech people shifted from "voting machines are inherently insecure" to simply ignoring the issue despite many political connections between Democrats and voting machine vendors. I'll stick with the results of my research into the matter. If you think you're well enough informed and that your sources actually care about the truth, let's agree to disagree.

This is one of the most investigated issues in American legal history. There was absolutely no indication of fraud. You've fallen for a conspiracy theory. It's now Pizzagate-tier.

(I still argue with Pizzagate adherents on a monthly basis. They think it's perfectly logical.)

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Post by verdverm »

immibis wrote: post #75
verdverm wrote: post #11

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It's not that it is "better" but that the choice is individual, not up to the mastodon server. In Mastodon, you trade Elon for some other group of individuals, so what happens if they make decision on moderation or content you do not agree with? ATProto is designed around accounts that are independent of data host, application, and moderation, all in the name of giving users individual control over these things. It's…

You have the opportunity to demonstrate this. I am banned from Bluesky. (They didn't tell me why - just a generic "you violated community guidelines") Tell me, concretely, how people can choose to continue following me, even though I am banned. Profile: immibis.bsky.social

We would need the DID, not the handle, to further investigate
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