Mastodon is just too confusing for the average person

You’re mistaking motivation for ability. If you understand email, you can understand Mastodon.

There were Nazis on X for years before this. They’re leaving because Trump won.

Because you hate Palestine?

They think that the problem is Musk, because he’s the proximate cause. You can’t expect people who are uneducated about this stuff to make a systemic analysis, research decentralized alternatives, and then decide to go to Mastodon or whatever.

If they were that educated on the issue, they would’ve left X a long time ago.

We don’t know how many of those are bots.

They said they have everything.

PrObLeMaTiC

My favorite part of this:

…Collins said that “part of the reason we did bought InfoWars is because people on Bluesky told us it would be funny to buy InfoWars” adding that “those people were right” this “is the funniest thing that has ever happened”.

I thought you could federate with Bluesky, too.

Choice is a good thing, though.

I’ll use Bluesky before I use Threads. I don’t want to get sucked further into the Zuckerborg.

Not for long, if RFK Jr has his way.

There are plenty of cheat sheets online. The main thing is understanding that there are different modes, knowing what they do, and how to switch between them and issue commands.

And you weren’t curious about how it worked? Not at all?

Okay. Define “intelligence”.

I think I might like them better if they didn’t auto-play. I hate anything that auto-plays.

Hasn’t the Turing Test been irrelevant for a while now? Even before the new AI boom?

Artificial intelligence is a moving target. Every time a goal gets reached, they just move the goalposts, because “well, obviously this isn’t real intelligence”.

Feel free to downvote and ignore them. Presumably, the people who posted them thought that they were worthy, and I doubt their minds were changed by your non-argument here.

People literally died for us to have these things enshrined in law.

How many of those people were bosses?

The mass of people don’t use any ad-blocking at all.