Bluesky now has 30 million users.

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If someone was doxxing you on bluesky, for example, and in the doxxing, you got attacked/injured by someone who recognized you/went to your house.

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Love an app that defaults me to people I actually follow and doesn't bombard me with endless reams of ads or engagement bait.

We'll see how long that lasts. But for now, its a blast from the past to be on a social media app I don't hate.

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I can't wait for them to bring in ex CIA/IDF types to "clamp down on disinformation".

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Off topic, but I pointing this out reminded me of visiting some ancap circles to see the crazy stuff they discuss. At one point there was a question about how externalities would be handled in their system of private courts and such. When ever I do read some terms and conditions there is almost always something in regard to arbitration. Predictably they were not happy about someone pointing that out and explaining that it is for the benefit of corporations not the customers.

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I never trust meta statistics anymore because you know they're filling out their "numbers" with bots to try and keep their stock prices up.

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During signup, they make it sound like it's a federated service. It is not. Dumped it when it was explained to me.

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They can break data protection laws and stuff...

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I find it odd that people follow Jack Dorsey into another sewer in troves. They seem to like the previous Twitter experiment, while I find it repugnant.

The lesson today is that I don't get the social media phenomenon. My bad. I hope they have a ton of fun.

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Unfortunately that's standard for pretty much every service in existence until the government determines otherwise or the users demand it en masse. No company is going to willingly expose themselves to any more risk than they absolutely have to. There's zero benefit to them.

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30 million users and still nobody likes my posts

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Ok......and why would they pay YOU that money? Wouldn't it be companies and governments they pay?

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Then the person liable to you would be the person doxxing you, not Bluesky themselves unless Bluesky themselves was the party that doxxed you and in that case I don't think a court would hold you to the arbitration.

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That is an ass pull if I've ever heard one.

Let me make sure I understand your comment correctly.

You're saying that if you post information publically, on a platform whose whole concept is that everything is public, and someone uses information you posted there to identify you, stalk you, break and enter, and then assault you.......that it's the fault of the service you used to post that identifying information?

That's the arguement being made?

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Tried it last night for a hockey game. I still think I'm not using it correctly but people were nice.

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Let's not call disabling the right to sue a "business risk". That's like calling the right to stop paying for the service a "risk" - it's riskdiculous.

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I didn't like Twitter as a social platform, but I did use it a lot for news on current events, such as how is the traffic on my route home, and why am I stuck in traffic, and how many miles ahead of me is the fucking accident?

Handy for communication during some kind of emergency that floods the phone network, but that's pretty niche. Anyway, I interact a little on Bluesky but mostly it's just a time killer like TikTok or whatever. Twitter was super easy to quit between the Musk take over and moving away from DC.

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We've seen Disney try but then withdraw an attempt to enforce arbitration when a lady died from an allergic reaction in their* restaurant and their partner had signed up for Disney+ free trial. It's not unimaginable a court would hold you to it since we're already bonkers land where forced arbitrary is legal.

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Mastodon has around 1 million active users
Bluesky has around 3* million active users

Bluesky doesn't have a decent way to see active user count, but it is likely higher than 3 million

Mastodon retains 10%, Bluesky retains 10% at worst

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such as how is the traffic on my route home, and why am I stuck in traffic, and how many miles ahead of me is the fucking accident

Any maps app, especially Google Maps, would do this as well.

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Man, people love Left wing Gab.

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Bluesky now has 30 million users.