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Wait until you find out everything else he’s been up to!

Mike Masnick is also been added to the bluesky board which gives me some faith Bluesky will less of a Elon / Dorsey vibe

https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-06-2024-board

But he’s left seemingly under a cloud, so unless the leadership changes I doubt he’s influencing decision making.

Let’s be honest these social media platforms will be a rinse and repeat. Just enjoy it whilst it lasts. Move on when the ownership go full Elon.

Do they drift back though. Bigger accounts seems to struggle to kick the Twitter high .

The average user is not even going to know this was a thing

Are homeless people going to start mysteriously disappearing now

I’d assume they would provide a backup from before the announcement for the training.

Service could change at any point though. If new American owners are smart they are not going to break something that’s obviously working.

The end user won’t be aware anything happened. If a ban kicks in then they will start to notice issues when the app updates don’t occur.

Mac don’t stop supporting hardware on their prior OS’s?

I thought they were using the ml domain as they were cheap / free ? Or am I missing the joke?

I never got the argument that it’s hard to sign up to. I think the main issues are that people want content from media entities that may not be present or welcome - legacy media etc. This could be where threads.net fills the gap but then it sounds like they will be blocked from a lot of instances.

I have worked around it via press.coop but they don’t cover everything. I also follow more journalists directly than I did on Twitter. I don’t miss Twitter and find Mastodon more informative but I’m sure that’s because of the information I’m looking for.

So basically we’re pretty much back to paying for a TV package.

Personally I think he was attempting a pump and dump and got caught out by the market downturn that hit just after he brought in.

Feels more like a 300 cuts

Was a interesting reaction from some in the fediverse stating they would block the BBC instance etc. In reality how welcome are entity’s that are seen as corporate?

I also cannot understand why the BBC news is not live, possibly they are experimenting with the moderation and management elements. I guess the news feed would get hit harder than Radio 4.

Tbh this sounds like it’s more about cost cutting and “toxic” twitter is the excuse to cut down on their use and move resources to other platforms. The fact they have left other accounts up would seem to hint that they will cope with “toxic” users to a certain point.

Still good to see bigger entity’s leaving.

Agreed. Either of the end results is a win for Zuck

Could be that BBC employees can have their own accounts on mastodon going forward

Awesome news! Hopefully more media follows suit!