Bluesky now has 30 million users.

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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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Eh... what I really wanted to know was when they are going to clear the wreck and whether that stupid mother fucker died so I shouldn't flip them off as I drive by. Can Google Maps tell me that?

I didn't really want to out myself as the asshole wishing for someone's death. But here we are.

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Jack Dorsey is not part of Bluesky, maybe you don't get things because you don't pay attention.

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There’s no right or wrong way. For it to be fun for an event like that you need to follow lots of people in that space. Like journalist, reporters, beat writers and analysts. However if you don’t want that content in your feed full time you could try searching one of the teams hashtags and use the latest tab to follow along. You can also take all those suggested follows and make a list to pin to your BlueSky front page without following them and just goto that feed during games.

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Let's not call disabling the right to sue a "business risk".

...and why not?

That's like calling the right to stop paying for the service a "risk"

But...that's what it is? I promise if they could remove that risk with a few words in the TOS, and it was legal, they'd all be doing that too.

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The need to give everything a political stance these days is maddening and IMO very divisive.

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It didn’t say anything except share some stats. What part of that was disgusting?

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That that many people are willing to hop on another VC funded platform.

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Oh interesting, thanks! I figured out the hashtaga bit but a lot of fun popped up without the hashtaga etc.

I suppose I'll just keep muddling along and figure something that works for me while trying to be a net positive influence!

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Jack Dorsey has no involvement in Bluesky. He doesnt even have a Bluesky account.

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When Bluesky was first launched in February 2023, it was an invite-only beta that required an invite code to register. Several prominent influencers and celebrities, including Breadtuber Twitch streamers were given referral codes to share with their audience. As a result, these codes were kept within these leftist spheres. So the user base is mainly Left wing. All I'm doing is calling spade a spade.

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The average person doesn't care about that and large scale development cost money. It doesn't really bother me either if it's being run respectfully and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until it's not.

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Oh it's very left, the whole open web seems to lean that way. I just find it silly and not much different from what they claim right wing platforms to be. When I go out into the world social spaces aren't left or right and for the most part we all get a long cordially. Bad eggs notwithstanding.

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The right to take legal action for harm done is imperative. It's importance is diminished if conflated with a legitimate business risk (like research and development). It should be illegal to deny it.

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I agree. But we weren't discussing hypotheticals, we were discussing reality.

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Whenever I see how they keep getting brought up, I'm always reminded of that Dilbert ep about how people just fall for blue logos that are easy on the eyes. They don't even have to know what it is... just the fact that the stupid logo is blue is enough. lol

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By "business risk", they just mean bad for the business, ethics aside

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I agree with you, the number/the rise of users on such platforms makes me feel sick. There literally is a built, proven, & running alternative. The difference is what, "the onboarding process" which instance to choose if you wanna post & vote?

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You're not thinking evil enough, honestly. Two examples off the top of my head, each being fairly innocent mistakes: If you enter your phone number for 2FA, it's not going to be public-facing. It's their responsibility to keep that information private from internal and external threats. Ok, so what if it leaks... right? Oh, it turns out the hacker SIM swapped your phone number for the 2FA, and did a password reset on your account via support chat. Still no big deal, its just social media... Except you've been giving updates to all your patreon backers on your project that's shipping soon. It suddenly vanishes off the internet, replaced with a crypto scheme, and all your supporters just flooded your bank with chargebacks. Your attempts at getting your account back are met with silence and your supporters are now furious. Was any of that your fault? No. You get $100.

Let's try another example: Bounty programs are used by companies to collect bugs and other possibly exploits so they can be fixed. "Too expensive, nobody will know if there's a bug anyway." So the app on Google Play store gets installed by 30 million users with a critical flaw... if a very specific image is opened in it, the phone bricks. All the news sites cover the bug, pushing the image to the front page. You open the app and... Your expensive phone just died. Were you at fault for that? No. You get to join the arbitration group and get an individual settlement of $12.

Think more evil. Don't stick with the "I have nothing to lose" because you almost always have something to lose. The fact these terms were even thought of and written means you do have a financial investment in the platform.

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