@codinghorror sorry, I thought you were the connected one ;-)
just started watching #dotnetconf and have seen they call out to ppl on "the formerly know bird place", #bluesky and #mastodon
Pete Buttigieg blasts Trump's rant against air traffic controllers and the Biden administration
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-blasts-trump

Was ist der Unterschied zwischen #Mastodon, #Bluesky und Twitter ?
Wie unterscheiden sich die grundlegenden Protokolle der drei Dienste ?
Und ist Bluesky eigentlich auch vollständig Open Source ?
https://just-stuff.blog/mastodon-unterschiede-zu-bluesky-und-twitter/
Meanwhile on Bluesky... writer Sarah Kendzior was suspended without notice nor explanation.
https://substack.com/@sarahkendzior/note/c-175914197
#SocialMedia #Censorship #SarahKendzior #Bluesky
The internet isnât a representation of reality; itâs full of fake, derivative versions of it & people repeating ideas they havenât thought through. Itâs basically an online game built from versions of reality that make you the most agitated & obsessed.
It should be treated as a game, because while it involves real people like you & me, itâs mostly dominated by derivative, inaccurate & counterfactual representations of reality. It's a drug trip.
#socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #bluesky
That people act as if they have to be on #socialmedia, even though it causes them distress, means it is maladaptive.
But #addiction and compulsions are so normalized in America because they make for a great manipulation tool that people donât realize they have a problem.
Itâs not a chemical dependence, but itâs rooted in neuroticism. You don't have to fucking watch it. You don't have to fucking read it. If you feel like you have to, that's a compulsion.

So, there are these nifty things called books...
Because the Internet is hell, filled with simulacra and people infected with their memeplexes, I've pretty much gone back to reading physical books.
As a teen, I mostly hung out in libraries, & in college, I was always in the library between classes. It's relatively easy to avoid #misinformation and propaganda if you don't read stuff on the Internet. I'm restricting all fiction to pre-2010, though.
#socialmedia #bluesky #Mastodon #fediverse

one thing about whichever way you are connecting to #bluesky is that there are a lot of odd, sus accounts, probably bots. i had high hopes that there would be better guardrails against this, but apparently there aren't.
Of *course* Sarah #Kendzior was going to eventually suspended from #Bluesky.
What do you guys think Bluesky IS?
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3m5edbhh4hk2h