not complaining about hating on X, but I think this is the new normal. The day of having only one microblogging platform is truly over, and were now in a phase of multiple networks (threads/x/bsky/fedi) all competing and rapidly iterating/implementing each others features RE:
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Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)
Congratulations to X on its slow journey to achieving feature parity with Bluesky. You're doing great, kiddo!
i can see paid link-aggregator communities working, but only in a context where access/payment is fully controlled by the community owners themselves without any intermediary (such as reddit the company) RE:
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Karl Bode (@karlbode.com)
sigh https://mashable.com/article/reddit-ceo-hints-subreddit-paywalls-on-the-way-earnings-call
i like that bsky is super into harris/walz, but it dominates the discourse to the point that there has not been a single post that reached the catchup feeds (top liked posts) about ukraine's attack into Kursk
idle musing: assuming this is true, and its a combination of: - ideology - trump stories generating more traffic to what extend is this not the media seeing a general drop in all news traffic because we dont/cant click links on socials anymore, and misattributing it to trump? RE:
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mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social)
They cover Harris like this because they want Donald Trump to win the election [contains quote post or other embedded content]
incredible funny that nostrs recent drop in DAU lines up perfectly with bitcoins drop in price [primal.net/e/note1lgf27...](
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Nostr
 ) https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreihqknzknnzqziijcqm7wqdamw3n3y35tnsqnpmfossrlv4h47bezi
a social network is only truly decentralised when everyone misses 25% of your total network size because nobody bothered to check what the japanese were doing over there [indieweb.social/@laurenshof/...](
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Laurens Hof (@laurenshof@indieweb.social)
@dansup@mastodon.social @syuilo@misskey.io I was curious about the impact of this: mastodon.social does around 100k-125k posts per day over the ...
 ) [Laurens Hof (@laurenshof@indie...](
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Laurens Hof (@laurenshof@indieweb.social)
@dansup@mastodon.social @syuilo@misskey.io I was curious about the impact of this: mastodon.social does around 100k-125k posts per day over the ...
 )
for the people talking atproto and masto MAU stats: [phanpy.social#/indieweb.so...](
Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
 ) the ratio of total posts per day to reported MAU numbers line up pretty well comparing [mastodon.social](
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social
Mastodon
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit
 ) to bluesky RE:
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hailey (@hailey.at)
yea id like to understand what that number is too! i dont think you could get that number from the info on https://mastodon.social/api/v1/instance/...
bluesky's sales pitch is that its a great place for journalism, and it turns out that its predominantly a great place to ratio the NYT
polymarket is turning more and more in to a monetised sentiment analysis of twitter lol https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreigmcsdmtglert5eyguoazox5fhz57thdjdnrtktwf5bvc2yxquvci
very curious how far she's willing to take being a public persona. the Online part of the campaign would certainly welcome her as a public figure on anti-elon vibes. which would further the schism thats already happening of reps being with elon and dems being explicitly anti-elon RE:
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 (@thefarce.org)
Only endorsement that matters!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]