Russian and Chinese hackers certainly are.

Well now they will just crush opponents via favours from the politicians they directly and openly paid for.

Mike Masnick is also been added to the bluesky board which gives me some faith Bluesky will less of a Elon / Dorsey vibe

https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-06-2024-board

But he’s left seemingly under a cloud, so unless the leadership changes I doubt he’s influencing decision making.

Let’s be honest these social media platforms will be a rinse and repeat. Just enjoy it whilst it lasts. Move on when the ownership go full Elon.

Do they drift back though. Bigger accounts seems to struggle to kick the Twitter high .

The average user is not even going to know this was a thing

Are homeless people going to start mysteriously disappearing now

I’d assume they would provide a backup from before the announcement for the training.

Service could change at any point though. If new American owners are smart they are not going to break something that’s obviously working.

The end user won’t be aware anything happened. If a ban kicks in then they will start to notice issues when the app updates don’t occur.

Mac don’t stop supporting hardware on their prior OS’s?

Legend!!

Tay all over again. Except this time it will be training on apartheid billionaires midlife crisis

Personally I think he was attempting a pump and dump and got caught out by the market downturn that hit just after he brought in.

Feels more like a 300 cuts

Soon it will be pay for Spotify on the same tier but also hear ad’s.

I assume this is the solution for celebs, public figures to confirm who they are (If they pay for premium)

Awesome news!

Was a interesting reaction from some in the fediverse stating they would block the BBC instance etc. In reality how welcome are entity’s that are seen as corporate?

I also cannot understand why the BBC news is not live, possibly they are experimenting with the moderation and management elements. I guess the news feed would get hit harder than Radio 4.

Tbh this sounds like it’s more about cost cutting and “toxic” twitter is the excuse to cut down on their use and move resources to other platforms. The fact they have left other accounts up would seem to hint that they will cope with “toxic” users to a certain point.

Still good to see bigger entity’s leaving.