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I've made a huge mistake breaking my personal rule to avoid all political content and I've regretted that immediately

You mean head of DOGE? Because we live in the timeline where a terminally online edgelord with the brain of a 14yo and the body of a 54yo makes meme government agencies.

Anyway, get your passport now. They're good for ten years, enough to last at least through the tentative end of Trump's circus.

Mastodon

Bsky federates. I follow several people from my Mastodon profile.

Edit: I should add a caveat here. Federation doesn't work as smoothly as Threads yet. You have to use a bridge service: https://fed.brid.gy/

Has an aggressively unpleasant user base and nowhere near the blocking functionality that Bluesky has, which is essentially mandatory now for minorities on the internet. Not to mention an onboarding process that can confuse the tech literate, much less the average person.

This comment is not an invitation to talk about how actually it’s very simple and intuitive if you follow a 20 step process that relies on detailed knowledge of how federation works.

Actually not a bummer in my opinion, let people sort into different platforms based on their interests like we used to do with forums.

A fragmented internet is a better internet

I say this as someone who likes fediverse microblogging (Mastodon, MissKey, etc) it will never be Mastodon. Mastodon and its maintainers are staunchly against all the things that would make it a viable replacement to Twitter.

Wasn't he forced to do so after trying to back out, or am I either imagining that or thinking of someone else?

I wouldn't discount the possibility that bsky is backed by the same dark money pool that bought twitter. putin found that it's way too easy to buy elections worldwide just using social media. They'll never give it up.

happens on every "new" social media platform that is similar to another social media platform. Was all over Lemmy when people were "boycotting" reddit...course most went right back to reddit when the boycotting was over.

Yeah thats how it was here after the reddit fiasco.

Tbf, were you on lemmy last summer?

Or USA 🤭 they just killed their democracy hard

Well, comparing to Twitter.. you can use their API, BlueSky is open-source and you can partially self-host. A lot better but you also could very likely be right about it being a trap.