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by TMWNN 5 days ago
According to the media and on Reddit, since Musk bought Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads have collectively gained 70 bazillion users on seventeen different occasions, and have caused Twitter to collapse and disappear eleven times.

Meanwhile, in the real world, without Twitter, the video footage of the near beheading in Belfast would never have been seen by the world; yet another example of how it continues to make and drive the news.

Without the footage being available to all, the police and mainstream media would have continued to describe what happened as a mere "stabbing" or "assault" or "attack", as the media did for hours after it occurred. When was the last time anything, anything at all, happened after a Bluesky post?

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Yes, some great things happened in Belfast in response to that post. Boy, isn't it great that the totally centrist Twitter is still relevant.

(History will judge you people appropriately -- as it did the people grinning at lynchings in 1950's America.)

I apologize on Twitter's behalf for it no longer obliging in hiding events that go against The Narrative(TM). But, as we've been discussing, Bluesky is always happy to censor as much as you want.
Enjoy having this content connected to your identity for the rest of time! You might be in for some unpleasant surprises later on.