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But the VPN produces money…?

I would guess a significant number of “creators” are motivated by the idea of eventually becoming a hit and making much more money, though. And wouldn’t really do it of they didn’t have that dream.

Not sure what percentage, though. Maybe less than I think.

Thats assuming those full remote employees are anywhere near an office.

I’d like to like Mastodon better. I’d like it - ot a simular open, decentralized platform - to be the one that everyone uses, if anything.

However, I do not like it as much. And Bluesky is getting the momentum, which is important.

They’re also at least theoretically relatively open and decentralized (but we do all know how that would go long-term)

But like you said, either is dramatically better than Twitter. Heck, just having many healthy options is good.

All true.

With that said, Bluesky has had one hell of a growth month - not just from Brazil - and that’s nice.

Technically Luxembourg. But Ireland is #2 by both GDP per capita and by mean income.

While I agree this is inconvenient, this sounds like something on Wikipedia to address.

I think it’s going to be a losing battle to try to not only make everyone everywhere aware of the problem, let alone convince them to put in the (admittedly minimal) effort every time to deal with it.

Does that mean they are not representative of the general population…?

They…do really need both though.

Apparenrtly the “plan” would only drop Twitter down to $2B a year.

That plus Musk putting in whatever’s needed - it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

Now, if people mass left the platform, that would change things. But it’s still suuuuper popular, because people fucking suck.

Ironic.

$2B of advertising, even.

If they’re still on track to do 1.92B this year, that is far more than people had been saying and far, far too much.

No.

Nope, seems cool to me.

Weird :)

There was a Twitter app for Android TV?

Unfortunately a bunch of people do want to see that shit.

If it gets used at all, that would be the best case scenario.

And it might even go down like things have with GM and their blocking Android Auto and Carplay (affecting their bottom line). And it might even affect enough that they’d stop.

But that’d be the beat case scenario (still feasible, even in hypercapitalismworld. But unlikely)