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.

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

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?

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.