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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 1 points 1 hour ago

True. Lemmy is a great example of how it could (and damn should) be. Never regretted being forced to leave reddit in the apipocalypse. Yet, search? LaCy is the only one i know and searching is...challenging at best. I'm running an instance and also searXng.

Mobile, oh yes. My next phone will surely be Linux if Google will really fuck up android with killing sideloading. Not that I wouldn't have expected them to do it sooner or later. Might be also challenging, but luckily I don't NEED a phone, I just like having it (and for android-auto, i hate being forced into the car's ecosystem...which now bites me in my ass).

WA is serious cancer, yes. The amount of "what?! why don't u use WA?!?!"-faces i get saddens me. But fuck you all. My wife is on telegram (yeah, i know, but i need the API!) and that's all I need. Whomever else wants to chat me? they're free to do, but i won't be held hostage on WA. And if people wouldn't install an app for me (as i'm expected for them, but THEY are those that don't care for privacy and such), i'm not important enough so screw them anyway. But I've often been schooled that in certain countries it's totally unavoidable. But that probably just depends on your level of achievable freedom, so to speak. Wouldn't share your optimism that they might cross a threshhold. Majority of users have not the slightest clue about anything or, way more badly, just don't care ("I have nothing to hide!").