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  • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Cool so a replacement that also has crypto bros behind it. Isn’t it fun how Mastodon doesn’t even get mentioned in major media?

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Isn’t Bluesky also Jack Doresy? So the same guy who was in charge of Twitter? It’s just Twitter 2.0. Bro got paid to have the same job lol

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Pretty sure the Washington post did a full spread about Mastodon like a year ago. Despite this, I still can’t find any real major media outlets on there. Or maybe they exist, but I feel the thing holding mastodon back is discovery.

      • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
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        15 hours ago

        Fuck the algorithm. I’ll take word of mouth any day. Forces me to crawl out of my hovel and be social once in a while. Lol.

      • Elextra@literature.cafe
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        17 hours ago

        Major outlets did do some previously. Unfortunately, look at the active user count of Mastodon vs other social media outlets.

        These companies want to reach the most people as possible. Theres also an AskLemmy about barriers to adoption of the general public unfortunately that was answered quite well :/

      • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 hours ago

        https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

        This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.). To ensure we and our users benefit fully from this expertise, partner Kinjal Shah will join our board.

        So we’ll see how long before the VC enshittification begins.

        • xep@fedia.io
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          21 hours ago

          That is unfortunately a direct crypto connection, which is a bit too much for me. It’s nice that someone’s trying to replace Twitter though.

        • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          21 hours ago

          So they took funding from a crypto capital fund, but with the expectation that blockchain would never be added to the product. Seems fairly okay to me.