If you are a citizen of any EU Member State, I implore you to consider signing the Tax-the-Rich citizens' initiative:
https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/
The idea is to tax the super rich and then use the money for climate justice. :blobcathappypaws:
This is an official EU citizens' initiative, meaning that if it reaches certain thresholds, it *will have to be* considered by the EU institutions. That's a really powerful tool, if actually used.
So we should use it. :blobcatcool:
@sk @amberage i signed up to the bluesky waiting list a few months ago, and a few days ago I got an invite code
It's unapologetically Twitter. Nobody on there has personality, it's all small influencer shit.
At least there's "custom algorithms" which seems like a privacy invasion based on what they can access about you and/or discriminate against you, so never mind! Those suck
The content moderation setting page is real
There's barely any user settings
It feels like you're using a decentralized platform due to the lag but there is no decentralization really being used.
So yes, it's everything pre-2022 Twitter and it sucks due to that but with the added load of techbro shit
The reason it works like this is because it's impossible for every server to store all posts by all users on all other servers. The costs would be huge, data would be duplicated on thousands of servers and most never used.
So, servers notice what they need to notice.
A solution to the problem you raised would be that once an account is followed, the server should backfill older posts. This is the second most requested feature on the Mastodon github:
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