Nothing, which is okay. People make the mistake of thinking users have any even passing interested in a good platform with social media, not just the social connections on it.

That is why Bluesky can be so successful: It’s an absolutely smooth and effortless drop-in replacement for Twitter, and has no gathered enough momentum for it to be easy to find existing people you want to follow on it, further drawing more people who you might want to follow in. So the motivation to use it is there, and the switch itself is essentially unnoticable.

Can you believe the pyramids have had 100% up-time with no human maintenance? If the pyramids can do it, why can’t your notes app?

Oh so it’s okay if I have, say, 1800 notes apps and just 3 are still running?

Why is there this very loud chorus of people touting bluesky as alternative to twitter instead of the far superior Mastodon?

What makes you assume Mastodon is superior as a solution for the people who are flocking to Bluesky in droves?

And who’d be the god of corporate hostile takeovers? :o

If tiktok is sa social media platform, then so is youtube/

Sorry for your loss. It’s been over a year since one of my two cats, Chili, walked over the bridge, and I still get moments where I miss her. Her sister OTOH is healthier than I am, tbh. 😅

You must be fun at parties.

And yet it runs with gas, as if we’re still cavemen cooking meat over open fires.

Really? Especially after lockdown, the idea to specifically communicate in non-realtime with friends/family seems quite useful to me.

Yeah you’re right of course, it is censorship. It just happens to be positive. Although, I’d argue that maybe it isn’t based on political or religious views, rather on not wanting to give someone a bad impression of the fediverse and make them leave again? As in, self-serving interests?

Man I sure wish this’d mean all Trump-generated content and speeches got deleted. That’d be genuinely helpful to the world at least…

Does it not, for example, have weirdly oversized emoji in the picker on your phone and this breaks the kaomoji?

Amateurs!

That’s partially because like many other words and names (just consider Isis, an important goddess of ancient egypt), “socialism” to most people means the type of absolute control that communist countries usually feature. But of course, as a word/concept, socialism is just the application of socialist policies, not even remotely alluding to some absolute end goal or so. And naturally as a part of society except a tiny minority at the top, most people would benefit from more socialist policies.

With FUTO it feels nearly perfect, only issue is that in daily use I write a weird mix of German and English even in the same sentence, and hence I need full mixed-language input which it doesn’t seem to support (yet).

*puts down fork* Awww…

Haha, thanks for giving it a serious answer, I was just making a silly joke. 😅🫶

How does doing it again under a different URL change anything? Or do you inherently fail to understand that the problem isn’t about a specific site?

I mean the same is true of Youtube or “content creator” culture as a whole, only the money pile there is too big to have imploded (so far).

Well, what do the duty declaration and duty tracking sticker say?

At least over here there ought to be one that tells you what the seller declared the goods and their value as, and another that tells you either the specifics of the duty fee calculated, or one with a large (over here) letter+number combination that tells you which standard category this falls under (usually for duty free packages).

50 on 300 is is ~17%, so that’s a pretty normal duty depending on the goods and which country they originate from.