cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/372863

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/61363

The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

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[–] 183 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

It's a good start but we gotta pump those numbers up.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago

    It's not just X; American social media has been gradually turning into such a shit show for the last 10 years: censorship, misinformation, consensus manufacture and creeping enshitification. I jumped ship to the fediverse and never looked back!

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Let me guess, they're moving to Bluesky?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Or meta because its better? Like getting run over by a small car instead of a bus.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago

    It is humanities responsibility to make the rest of this man’s life miserable

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don't go to BlueSky !!! They're not better than X. They obey to the same leaders... MONEY, GREED, AND POWER. A few weeks ago they restricted 72 Turkish protesters the access to their BlueSky accounts on simple request of the Turkish Government. So, BlueSky cannot be trusted they will secure the accounts of their customers. If Trump would ask BlueSky to block all accounts of members who are against him, they'll do it right away.

    https://www.turkishminute.com/2025/04/17/bluesky-restrict-access-72-account-turk-amid-government-pressure7/

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    BlueSky may not be ideal, but anything is better than X.

    X is just a machine for turning billionaire cash into political domination.

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  • bluesky is just early twitter, and it wont stay that way for long. they've already removed people from there that the Turkish govt doesn't like and there is nothing at all stopping some billionaire like musk from swooping in and buying it all up.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What's the quality like of the people who are still on Twitter in 2025? Does the fediverse want them? (These are real questions, I have no idea if there's still any decent people on Twitter.)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Every massive influx from Twitter has brought a deluge of people I want nothing to do with in any way shape or form, and a small sprinkling of cool ones. Fortunately like 4/5ths of the crappy ones leave again, but that other 1/5th is a big number when you're talking an influx of hundreds of thousands.

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    [+] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    For most people it's unfortunately just "is it like Twitter" - both in terms of accessibility and algorithmic content suggestion.

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    [+] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 33 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Abandon anything this Nazi touches.

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just a reminder that politico is owned by the Axel Springer group which is a real force of bad for Germany and Europe. Their media campaigns often try to push the public opinion in a right wing conservative direction.

    Their biggest shareholder (35%) is KKR (an American global private-equity and investment company) that use the might of the media group to sway the public opinion against climate friendly actions/policies.

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Small chances for now, but let's keep growing small communities here. People need to get tired of Instagram and centralized algorithms to switch to fediverse

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    A lot of our biggest communities still have like two mods taking care of everything and are prone to cherry picking. It‘s the same old forum structures where the internet bubble effect is just as strong if not stronger than on larger, already problematic platforms. Some of the things I‘ve seen and experienced lately bring back memories from those internet forum days. Good ones but also the worst ones. And I have to admit it makes me doubt the Fediverse is actually scalable. There‘s just a lack of accountability in the end.

    Which is not to say a federalized platform isn‘t an alternative to giant corporations. Those have their own problems and fair share of fuck ups. But I think I‘m already starting to see the limits of the Fediverse. At least in it‘s current stage.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    The fediverse is much more than just lemmy. That being said i also disagree for lemmy. Drama between mods and communities was a regular thing on reddit. Still reddit managed to grow quite big before the bots took over. And companies are in no way more accountable to the users. Look at what happened with twitter under Musk. The only realistic choice you have as a normal user is to leave. And in the fediverse leaving a shitty instance still allows you to connect with all the other content from a different instance.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The fediverse is about options. If you don't like how someone else runs their platform or community you can create your own. It's awesome because you don't get locked into one platform. And in the future I think we will see more big companies and organisations running their own stuff. But I agree that at the moment it is not what "normal people" are looking for and it will take quite some time until it develops. But to be fair the same was the case for reddit.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Might have to also let people know the Fediverse exists?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Biggest problem with twitter/X is so many companies mess you around until you call them out on it, then things tend to get resolved how they should have been.

    I truthfully have always seen that as Twitter/X's only use

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean, Mastodon is German, so they're probably moving here. The federated fork of Dorsey's Twitter is second.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    There is always that one comment saying "b-but its technically kinda federated". It doesnt fucking matter if its federated if 99.999% of all users are on one instance. The entire concept of a long lived, enshittification resistant fediverse relies entirely on being decentralized with a reasonably evenly distributed userbase. You fucking bet lemmy would already be completely worthless right now if people hadnt stopped lemmy.world from grabbing more communities and users.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Those are rookie numbers, euros, get on that shit.

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    Couldn’t happen to a nicer piece of shit.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    remember 80% of instagram is bots according to a study reported by german media.

    so X id even say it could be more giving the vast hatred increase and content change over the last years. so basically they lost 90%%

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