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:
incredible funny that nostrs recent drop in DAU lines up perfectly with bitcoins drop in price [primal.net/e/note1lgf27...]( ) 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/...]( ) [Laurens Hof (@laurenshof@indie...]( )
for the people talking atproto and masto MAU stats: [phanpy.social#/indieweb.so...]( ) the ratio of total posts per day to reported MAU numbers line up pretty well comparing [mastodon.social]( ) to bluesky RE:
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:
yeah some real shitheads in fintwit for sure. think fintwit is kind of the perfect example that any next gen internet platform cannot do what twitter did and become a global town square for all communities; you simply cannot get some communities to coexist with each other RE: View quoted note β†’
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i think a future where bluesky is successful is most likely also a future where federation and decentralisation get turned into major tech buzzwords as well RE: