I agree. Musk’s rhetoric is making it more difficult to carry out our moral duty for fair governmental representation of the middle class and lower class in any country. The opposite of extreme wokeism is extreme right-wing beliefs, which are far more dangerous.
What’s important to remember about this discussion, the anti-Twitter brigade aren’t upset that their ideas are being censored, but rather that other people’s aren’t.
Not really. For me (and I read both platforms), it’s nice to have Bluesky which has a much lower incidence of shitfunnels like Andrew Tate randomly soiling themselves all over the timeline.
And kingkong doesn’t use it which has got to be a benefit.
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The more choices the better, it is quite surreal to read the recent Meta’s statement about changes in content moderation. https://www.google.com/amp/s/about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes/amp/
This is from a geology assistant prof in bluesky 
i think i need a done for the next time i go v wandering in the desert back home
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We will see how BS looks when they have a couple of hundred million users and the inevitable spam and scam bots start making their rounds there, too.
X is good for following news semi-realtime (if you can ignore the stuff you don’t like).
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Why do you want to sign up for one. I guess the purpose might influence the choice. Though if you have managed without any of them so far, I’d ask myself if I really needed to add yet another social media platform to my life.
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CNBC: Zuckerberg says Biden administration pushed Meta ‘super hard’ to take down vaccine content
That must be a fake news 
Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan on a podcast that Biden’s White House said Meta had to take down posts saying Covid vaccines might have side effects.
Zuckerberg said he thought the Covid vaccines were more positive than negative, but that the administration was pushing to take down posts that were true.
- Dunno how “hard” they were pushed but there was plenty of anti vaccine content on Facebook. It was very helpful for me personally as I used it to clean up some of my “friends” there that were spreading rubbish.
- Context is everything: spreading misinformation about the “side effects” of the vaccine in the midst of the pandemic was magnified and amplified to ridiculously absurd levels which were suggesting we’re more at risk for taking the vaccine than not taking it.
- Zuckerberg has now fallen into line and whatever he says needs to be taken with a grain of salt
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That’s little surprise, though it’s comforting to see the findings from the Twitter files confirmed.
It’s also hardly surprising that Trump’s newest foot soldier is going out of his way to say all the right stuff to all the right wingnuts, safe in the knowledge he doesn’t have to back it up because - who cares about facts, accountability or truth any more?
Zuckerberg didn’t specify who from the White House made the requests, saying, “I wasn’t involved in those conversations directly.”
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Zucki will be centerstage with Elon and Bezos at the inauguration, brownnosing works.
Rumour has it that Elon will not get an office in the White House but in a nearby building.
That’s not a surprise as he isn’t and won’t be a government employee. He’ll be paid by someone else.
There’s only one choice here and that’s X. Blue Sky is basically just a left wing tantrum, in the same way Gab and Parler were right wing tantrums at the height of internet censorship. It won’t last as a serious competitor. Most of those that have flounced off will return to where the network is largest and where the speech is freest.
I think it’s up to what the advertisers do. Even shifting a small amount could be disastrous to Twitter.
No, it won’t. Twitter wasn’t bought as a direct profit generating machine, it was bought as a propaganda machine, at which it excels. Musk ain’t stupid, unfortunately. Twitter profits were always secondary.
I just want to see pics of restomods, V8s and nature. Not everything has to be about politics.
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It’s quite nice being able to scroll through said threads without having to whizz past (and accidentally and infuriatingly tap on) another f–king ad for Temu. Ads spaced after every 2 or 3 replies on Twitter just makes it a mess.
There is a new one trending, although more an alternative to TikTok than to Twiiter.
Are people are really so stupid that they voluntarily join a Chinese site that is literally called “Little Red Book”? We are lost.
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