Notices by Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social), page 5

Me in the Daily Beast pointing out that the Surgeon General seems to be ignoring basically all of the evidence (including some in his own report) in pushing for warnings on social media. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-surgeon-general-is-wrong-social-media-doesnt-need-warning-labels?ref=author

@diazona @mmasnick.bsky.social that's by a professor. a famous, well established one.

@SamUpstate unfortunately... https://apnews.com/article/social-media-tech-kids-new-york-82779a3040385dfc26c6ee15f490234e

Why the fuck are all these people still on Substack? 🤦🏻♀️

@billbennett it's a @KarlBode term, so you have to ask him. but I believe you're close. I think (but am not sure) that the context is management/finance types who'd rather be seen out at brunch then doing any hard actual journalism work.

@BachToTheFuture @mmasnick.bsky.social to use the bridge, you just need to follow the bridgy account on the platform your on. It's as simple as following anyone else.

@that_ac @KarlBode i saw someone say that original image was faked and not a real result.

@mansr @mmasnick.bsky.social definitely not

@billOfEarth42 @mmasnick.bsky.social Not only is he not in control, he was never in control, made it clear he totally disagreed with the direction of the operation before it even launched, shut down his account nearly a year ago, quit the board, and publicly trashed bluesky in an interview last month.

@sass @mmasnick.bsky.social bridges are good

@marcprecipice @mmasnick.bsky.social doesn't look like I can see them directly right now. I'm checking from my Mastodon account as well, but I don't get notified of them either here or there afaict

@RufusJCooter @mmasnick.bsky.social definitely nice to see... looking forward to it doing more things as well

@AbyssalRook i mean, assuming you mean PDS, there are a ton. Don't know who's keeping track, but I know plenty of people who are self-hosting their own PDSs.

@lewdmachines @mmasnick.bsky.social a reasonable concern. they are a PBC, but that's still a "C". But, they do seem to be building in full protections to prevent against enshittification by enabling exits, and the ability to interact with AT Proto without having to use Bsky itself.

Also, I do believe they have a few fairly reasonable, non-shitty, monetization plans in mind.

@grtyvr @mmasnick.bsky.social your too late. already getting a bunch of nonsense from people who falsely think Bluesky is a centralized service controlled by Jack Dorsey.

@billOfEarth42 @mmasnick.bsky.social because that's false information.

@digg @mmasnick.bsky.social tried to explain my thinking here: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/27/why-bluesky-remains-the-most-interesting-experiment-in-social-media-by-far/

@nus @mmasnick.bsky.social if you think that's what it is, then you're not really paying attention?

@charleshbryan @mmasnick.bsky.social I mean, I'm curious too...

Soooo, while I still spend time here on Mastodon, I'm spending more time these days on Bluesky. But, with Bridgy Fed, there is now a bridge of my posts on Bluesky that can appear here as well, for folks interested in hearing me blather on over there...

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