They aren’t really the same answer.

People suggest that Mastodon is too complicated for the average knuckle-dragging moron to use (and it might be, but frankly I consider that a pro, not a con) because it has “servers”, as if the entire point of the internet wasn’t to have a global network of communication across a multitude of clients and servers. Do these same people think the concept of websites and email are also too complex for the regular person? Maybe… But again, if the regular person is that fucking dumb do we really want have them in our community at all?

What’s more, BlueSky is supposedly federated (or “will be”™), and as such it’ll have to deal with all of the same challenges around federation that Mastodon deals with, and people are kidding themselves if they think otherwise.

Otherwise I agree with your last sentence. Social media is about money and fame, first and foremost. The average person will always go where the most money and fame are concentrated.

You want the bullshit “Mastodon is too complicated and hard to use!” answer or the real answer?

BlueSky has rich people behind it.

I’m afraid you’re the one who has fallen for it…

There were plenty of reasons to vote for the Democratic candidate in 2024–climate change, affordable housing, healthcare, global stability, a continuation of what is actually a solid economy (especially when you look at markets, GDP growth, take home pay, employment numbers, and the latest inflation numbers).

But, funny enough, that’s all irrelevant to anyone with half a brain.

The real reason to vote for Harris in 2024 was as a means of voting against Trump and the fascist clown posse known as the Republican Party. This is the part where I could spend an hour writing our all of the reasons that Trump and the Republicans have been, continue to be, and will be bad for the country and the planet, but if you haven’t figured that one out by now you’re beyond help just like all the people who made the terrible decision to allow this to happen.

I don’t blame the politicians for being politicians–that’s like blaming a dog for barking. I have reflected deeply on this past election, and the only conclusion that I can logically reach today is that it is the American people who are to blame for putting these terrible politicians there in the first place (either by voting for them OR failing to vote against them).

One day America will cease to exist, and if there is anyone left on Earth at all, their history will accurately show that it was the American people who dumbed themselves to death.

I just wish we could beat them at the fucking ballot box first. Right now it looks like the nazis are a majority in this fucked up shithole country of ours.

Yeah, I’d love to do it myself, but once I saw that you have to unglue the screen I decided that I have enough projects going on right now. lol

God is a lie.

Holding Western stability hostage in the name of the oligarchs, good job voting everyone…

Are you talking about buildings or people? Because the death toll in Gaza is estimated to be ~40,000 while the population is ~3,000,000. That’s 1.3% for those playing along at home.

Which, if you’re a bit slow on the uptake, means get ready for Trump and Netanyahu to have their way with the remaining 98.7% of Gaza.

But hey, that’s democracy I guess. Personally I enthusiastically voted for Harris, but the people of the US and Israel have spoken and so now we let the chips fall where they may.

The Biden administration not only gave intel to Ukraine weeks before the invasion, they also rallied the world behind support for Ukraine and sanctions on Russia, not to mention the billions and billions of dollars of military aide. These ungrateful fucks wouldn’t have bullets to fire or guns to fire them with if it wasn’t for the Biden administration.

Considering multiple blue states just voted against RCV, and the majority of the country voted to put even more ultra-conservative SCOTUS judges on the court, I’m not sure he is on the right side of history.

History is being written right now, soon to be dictated by Donald Trump, and recorded through the lens of Donald Trump. What will the fascist schoolbooks written by the Texas board of education say to remember the people who stood up against Trump?

Any day now eggs will go back to costing what they did in 1992…

Maybe they should have just walked up and rang the doorbell. “Hello? Hamas? We’re unarmed! Will you please let our hostages go? Pretty please!”

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Netanyahu continues to have his way. Nothing has fundamentally changed.

Keep telling yourself nice stories, amigo.

Almost like this country is overflowing with fascists.

Imagine thinking that somebody not giving a shit about the fate of Islamists in Gaza is “fascism”. Go buy a dictionary.

And while you’re at it buy a Qur’an too, because I have some bad news for you about the holy prophet himself.

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Don’t worry, multiple RCV measures also failed because no matter how much people complain about the two-party system they’re also TOO FUCKING DUMB to understand how anything works or what to do about fixing it.