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      Or I think you know, users are going to have to get over themselves because they are currently going from centralized platform to centralized platform to supposedly decentralized platform. Eventually, maybe one day they will figure out that platforms do not work and protocols are what people should be using.

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        The average user is hopping from phone app to phone app, following their favourite interner celebrity. They don’t care about the rest.

        Meanwhile, VC backed businesses can buy internet celebrities, and on the cheap.

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          Humanity is doomed because that means that eventually we’re going to have Kim Kardashian as president. We might as well evacuate the Titanic while there are still lifeboats around to do so.

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    🤷‍♂️ there’s got to be some place for the average person to go without being screamed at by some nerd calling them a boot licker.

    I also think the “confusion” of fediverse is overblown. People aren’t confused. First adopters who don’t want to be screamed at by flying squid aren’t telling friends and family to join.

    The people here and their attitude towards people who don’t agree with them are the problem.

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    Bluesky: You are immediately and automatically welcomed into the warm embrace of an algorithm that entices you into a parasocial relationship with the synthetic community it has created.

    Mastodon: If you’re lucky you’ll stumble across a warm welcome for new users explaining how posts are called toots here, likes are called florps, and our version of Grok is called Garfiald.

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      But that’s not true for Bluesky. The only feed that you see when newly registering is the Following feed which is chronological.

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        That’s not how it was as of yesterday when I signed up just to see what all the fuss was about. (I don’t think I’ll be participating.)

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          Wow, you signed up yesterday and determined, “an algorithm that entices you into a parasocial relationship with the synthetic community” all on your own?

          It’s not any of that…

          But If what it truly is, isn’t for you, that’s fine too.

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          Ok true, I think I forgot that you also see the Discover feed? But you can just remove that from your feeds and add any feed you like or just use the Following feed.