Some majorities are bigger than others.

Get your eyes checked.

There are plenty of naive people on here also shilling bluesky over Mastodon.

Err… what?

Care to explain what that ‘other interpretation’ is?

If democrats really wanted to reduce the disparity in wealth, why would they avoid nominating Bernie twice?

It was to lower taxes for earners below 400k, tax unrealized gains for the extremely rich, raise taxes for the wealthy in general.

I’ve seen this one before! The only part that “gets through” are the tax cuts for those making >$100k per year!

This is why establishment democrats don’t want people like Bernie. They’re part of the problem and want to keep profiting off of it.

When?

They don’t care about doing any of that, though. They only make promises to get elected and reneg on everything once in office.

Did any of that happen while Biden was in office? Didn’t think so. It’s because he’s a stooge propped up by the ruling class to make people like you think he has your interests at hand. He doesn’t. Establishment democrats do not want to raise taxes on the wealthy. That’s a progressive agenda.

and honestly that’s all they need to know.

Err… why are we suggesting the corporate-owned and centralized bluesky over Mastodon then?

Oh right, viral marketing and useful idiots. I shouldn’t have expected more.

We still shouldn’t be doing the dirty work of rich people for them.

We should all be promoting Mastodon over the centralized and corporate-owned bluesky.

BlueSky made their own protocol that they control, citing that ActivityPub wasn’t enough for what they wanted to do

Sounds like bullshit for useful idiots that don’t know what they’re talking about.

There’s a viral marketing campaign going on right now to herd the twitter sheep to the next rich-person’s platform. That’s why we keep seeing useful idiots say “bluesky” instead of “Mastodon.”

Not based.

It’s what the DNC wants. They want to only be seen as the “lesser evil” to people like trump.

They genuinely have no interest in helping the working class, because they’re not a part of it.

Why bluesky instead of mastodon? It’s like saying lemmy.world is going to replace reddit instead of the Lemmy platform.

Are you just commenting how the people who use something like twitter are eager to be herded like sheep into the next walled garden?

Are you part of the bluesky viral marketing campaign to make it artificially seem like it’s “already won”?

Not a big surprise it’s only the alternatives to twitter and instagram.

I agree. It really shows how conditioned these consumers have become.

They’re eager to be abused.

maybe the ad model has merits on pragmatic grounds but

No, ads aren’t necessary at all. They should be illegal.

Couldn’t agree more.

Technology forums are usually just advertising boards.

We need to stop discussing server costs without including actual numbers.

No, they really aren’t, and they scale with users.

Have any of you guys ever hosted… anything? It’s not as expensive as the people asking for your money would have you believe.

I highly recommend getting some of your own experience before assuming people who say “server costs are expensive” are discussing in good faith.

Most of them are scumbags who are looking for useful idiots to peddle their bullshit for them.