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The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

There are already smaller appviews that use the existing hosting/authentication infra, but bypassing the bsky appview aggregation. Nothing with any real scale but for example there is a barebones reddit/hackernews equivalent https://frontpage.fyi/

Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers out of their homes in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Things like using surveillance to figure out when your payday is and raising prices on that day because you psychologically are more willing to spend

Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately a lot of our peers are also tech illiterate :(