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The End of The Twitter Era

  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • 26 November 2024
  • Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, social network
  • 7 reactions
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https://www.sandofsky.com/end-of-twitter/

Bluesky claims to be billionaire proof, which is either hopelessly naive or deliberately smarmy. Claims that their platform is open and decentralized are mostly bullshit.

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