….that we know of. Could have used a surrogate.

It CAN be time based, but there's also a "hot" and an "active" sorting. Both of which are "algorithms".

It's a lot more simple of an algorithm, and doesn't intentionally push specific topics, but if you open https://lemmy.world/ anonymously, you'll see a default "All/Active" feed which is sorted by engagement.

If you hang out at a Nazi bar, you're a Nazi.

Perhaps it's because I'm old, but I kinda hit a wall a few years back where I stopped giving a shit about what famous people had to say on the internet. So on that basis, the move from Twitter to Mastodon was easy for me. Less easy was leaving behind people who I liked, but life is change, and we leave people behind all the time.

We can all go entire books at this point with the things we can't believe...

This timeline is fucking insane, and twice as depressing as anything I thought I'd ever live through.

Perhaps you shouldn’t. At this point, it’s likely the majority of users are bots.

Real translation: thanks for the paycheck. Remember me when you need another yes person to be your scapegoat.

I am also addicted to the fediverse.

Are you saying 90% of Americans bought a Tesla last month?

I guess for me the stench of the people are counteracting the near heroin addictiveness of the fediverse

Who is liable for the output of Grok anyway? Would Germany like to ask about now

So sad when a CEO catches the woke mind virus, thoughts and prayers!

That's easy. It's more dull here, and there's less lock-in.

No, really. Social media without the dopamine-pump-style algorithm behind it is far less stimulating. Meanwhile, the Federation model itself allows us to abandon nodes that are co-opted by bad actors. So there's always somewhere else to go with all your favorite stuff when things go sour.

She was happy to take the bag even after Musk’s nazi salutes but now runs away. I wish I could say ”better later than never’ but she was a CEO, not some random nobody working at the ”basement’. Fuck these people!

There’s still some information on certain topics, where it is the best place to find it. OSINT for example.

People who use Twitter to publish and have a large audience are reluctant to leave their followers behind. Convincing followers to go over to a new platform is not so easy. If you fear losing 70% of your followers, if you switch to Blusky, or 95% if you switch to Mastodon, then it might be risky financially.

Network effects are strong.

Well, according to one source:

At X, her base salary was reportedly $6 million, according to Market Realist. In addition to this, she was eligible for up to $2 million in annual performance bonuses and received $4 million in stock options spread across a three-year term.

So if she stuck around another year she'd have gotten another ~$1.3 million in stock options. Guess she figured it wasn't worth it.

Hey, I like him!!

J/k, he's a cunt.

So all of the Americans are by your definition?

Some of them are held prisoners by Nazis.. not everyone has the ability to flee unfortunately. There are levels of resistance but I can't fault absolutely everyone there for being beaten down at this point.