Sure

Thousands per year, usually.

but the system is rigged or my vote doesn’t count or genocide joe or some stupid shit

Watched it again. OK, it got slow for a minute there, but holy shit.

Where he’s walking off at the end screaming “SHAUUUUNNNN” in his totally-fine kid’s ear…

Way better version:

https://youtu.be/vEK5VxDMMjo

It’s kinda long, but omg does it not stop being funny to me.

Schahn

Oh man, that glitch video of this is what I thought of instantly

And it still makes me tear up laughing every time I see it.

And then realize you hadn’t prepared nearly enough.

And absolutely all of the roadblocks, legal restrictions, grownups pushing back, worry over public sentiment, etc have been eliminated. Expect it to be much, much worse than you thought.

Any comparison to what has happened in the past is out the window.

I…haven’t seen a single one of those. Any of it.

I noticed that for the first time yesterday.

Today, I don’t see them. I guess maybe moderation and/or blocking is working.

Close, as in really super close…? One might even say, accurate?

Seems likely to be very low so far.

Although it’s getting enough attention lately that this may change.

They currently have no plans for advertisement.

On what they’re currently planning to bring in money:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24278666/bluesky-working-on-premium-subscription

That could change at any time, but seems likely to be true for now.

I would guess things will be fine at least up until they either IPO or they get bought by a VC firm or some public corp. That’s the point in the ensuing to fixation cycle to move to something else (unless something unexpected happens like they really do nicely federate before then or something else that may save the platform).

So I’m guessing probably at least a couple years that it’ll be good, and it’s 10000x better than Xitter.

I’m definitely one of the people who is happy to contribute via comments, but have zero interest in having “Followers”. It’s going to be very rare that I have a brand new post worth ssubmitting and dont get any kind of domamine hit from building a “following” like a ton of people seem to.

That’s why community- and post-oriented systems like Lemmy/mbin and classic forums have always made way way more sense to me.

But for some reason i’m liking Bluesky. Can’t figure out why.

I keep trying to want to use Mastodon. But I’m using Bluesky far more. Heck, maybe more than here at this point, just because it’s been so…refreshingly positive.

And I had absolutely no interest in Twitter at any point.

It seems like an article written purely about info in a documentary, with no original investigation (although I could easily see that they tried at least some, but no one answered)

Yeah, he went to the rrainforest so, uh, that’s cool.

Definitely not a playing fiddle while Rome burns kind of thing.

shudder

Then why didn’'t he say “western” Virginia? That would have even worked.

Instead he wrote it in a way that 10000% guaranteed that people thought he meant the State.