I guess I’m glad I was never a big Twat, so Bluesky wasn’t a place of refuge for me the way Lemmy was when Reddit went off the rails.

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    24 hours ago

    Or Usenet. Or BBSs. But one could argue they were all social media. I think the difference is the control that is being exerted by people in power. And that’s likely due to the audience size. It becomes an effective way to guide people’s ideas, decisions, etc. Facebook got there. Reddit got there. Lemmy could.

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      23 hours ago

      Who would be the ones to do it in lemmy? People are switching to federated options to guard against that.

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        23 hours ago

        It’s resistant for sure. But say one instance becomes dominant and controls most traffic? It’s still possible however unlikely.