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I was just thinking of the pinball numbers song yesterday!:

 
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I always hated that "genre" of videos... so obviously performative and gross. Related, I was always grossed out by turning pictures of real people into meme's... I'd dread that happening to me. Meme's need to be based on cartoon characters or at least celebrities who were already super well known in my view.
 

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Bluesky is a decentralized social media protocol much like Mastodon, started by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and spun off of Twitter before the whole Musk thing happened.

It published an iOS app earlier this year and an Android app earlier this month, but for now is in a closed beta.

Still, some users have noticed some issues with it.

 

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The protocol mastodon uses is called ActivityPub and is older than Mastodon, because Mastodon didn't create an unnecessary new protocol when one already existed.

On top of that "proprietary decentralized protocol" is kind of super missing the point.
 
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Q: Jack Dorsey is launching “Bluesky,” a new social network to compete with Twitter. I’ll just join that instead!

A: Sorry to disappoint, but Dorsey played a key role in Musk’s deal to take Twitter private. The two are good friends. And Bluesky is an initiative launched by Twitter. In April, Dorsey wrote, “In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.” [Update: Dorsey did not transact his shares in Twitter, and now holds equity in Musk’s venture.]
 

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This is, conceivably, why BlueSky as it exists right now doesn't have a block function. He wants user-blocking and other moderation actions to be something third-party developers have to code for on the client side; the government/user base can't demand that he block nazis from his platform if there's no ability to block users on the platform level.
 
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