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  • Because most people don’t exactly want a community-led social platform that respects you and empowers user freedom, even if some say they do.

    Bluesky is promising a Twitter-like experience. They promote their ties to the former Twitter, and promise algorithms, dopamine-inducing “reach” and “engagement”, paid subscriptions, some degree of centralized control (primarily of the network’s infrastructure), and a for-profit VC-funded company, all under the guise of federation. They claim a mastodon-like brand that they are yet to deliver.








  • matcha_addict@lemy.loltopolitics @lemmy.worldTrump wins.
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    10 days ago

    This also suggests the Electoral College no longer favors Republicans, and is somewhere between neutral and actually favoring Democrats again.

    I don’t agree with this. Republican majority States are still over represented. They just happened to also win the popular vote this time. The scenario of Democrats winning popular vote but not electoral is still more likely than it happening to Republicans