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Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place (www.psypost.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Elfenbeil@feddit.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Big surprise, Not. But this was all before the new discussions in the USA about censorship. On the other hand, most users are still using tweeter, so why should they leave now?

Any thoughts on this?

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

And then there's me who never ever had an account there and surely will not at blowsky :-)

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I only got an account because Friendica can connect to it this way. Otherwise, no need for another corporate silo, but with federation as a buzzword slapped to it.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Yup. And I'm kinda curious how they'll manage to put a bad label on "federation" in the end. How exactly they'll fuck shit up. For users, not them of course.