Well…yes and no. I agree with the overall message you’re trying to convay, but will come back on the small details.

The rich feel that they should be entitled to the best healthcare, education, housing, ect. And I think they do. However I also think that’s true of the poor as well.

Not only should we all be deserving of the best life, we should also be increasing what that that means. Improving what the best is, and yhen THAT then becomes what we all get.

If a rich person gets cancer, or breaks their leg, or whatever. I feel like saying they DON’T deserve the best health care is obscene. Not because they’re rich, but because they’re human.

Same with education.

Housing it’s a bit more broad strokes, as “best” in this catagory is a little less defined. There’s a youtube video by ryan george where he looks at rich people houses, and mocks some of the homes features. Some of these houses have things for the sole purpose of wasting money. Like a 19 foot golden statue of a man throwing balls in the air, with a matching water fountain, so the water being sprayed up looks like it’s part of the force he’s throwing the balls.

That’s just money spent for the sake of spending money.

I forget who it was, but there was some movie star in the 90s. Maybe Jim Carry, but maybe someone else.

In any event, when they asked how he was able to get his star power noticed, and achieve the things he had in movies, he replied “I was stupid, I made mistakes, and I failed. Repeatedly failed. Everybody in this business has some stupid commercial, or failed play that they look back on relieved that those days are behind them. But the thing is, when your family is rich, and can support you failing, you aren’t afraid of failing. You learn from your failures. Your failures get you noticed, and that’s when you get oppertunities you haven’t earned. Just by being in the business, and having a safety net without fear of failing. There may be 1000 more people more talented than I am, but I’m MUCH dumber, and also not afraid to take the leap. Because if I fall short, it’s ok. I still live in a mansion, and have no way to actually be affected by my failures.”

I’m paraphrasing, but that’s essentially what was said. I remember being 11, and thinking “Wait, he’s saying that the only reason he’s sucsessful is because he was born into a situation where even if he fails, it’s not going to affect him? But that means those other actors who are more talented won’t even be seen, and we’re being deprived of better performances. Simply because if they fail, they’re homeless. So it’s smarter for them to take a factory job and be stable, than make a high risk gamble and likely be homeless.”

I can’t say for sure that’s the day I became cynical, but it’s definately a motivating factor. Essentially being taught from an early age “There’s in groups who can’t fail, and out groups who the system is stacked against. Fall into the wrong group just by being born, and you’re going to have a hard life, and that’s by design.”

You’re measuring Bluesky with a different measuring stick than they are.

You’re measuring it with the “This is decentralized, and therefore not connected to corporate interests, and never can be” stick.

These journalists WORK FOR the corporate interests you left twitter (or maybe never had an account) over. They are measuring the stick by “These current users are just MAGA users in a cult”.

As long as Bluesky doesn’t start shifting right wing MAGA, it IS different for their purposes. It’s just their purposes are not YOUR purposes, and therefore they can still say that it’s different, and not have that be a lie. Doesn’t mean it’ll satisfy you any.

Ok…so then doesn’t that take ALL power away from every mod?

Let’s say you ban Lost_My_Mind@Lemmy.world

But then I could create Lost_My_Mind@Lemm.ee

And you could ban it. And I could create Lost_My_Mind@Shit.just.works (or however it’s formatted).

And then this cat and mouse could happen, all day every day. Just a series of me creating accounts, you blocking them, but it then becoming a full time job making sure I’m currently banned, and me evading the system.

Or am I missing something?

Ok, but answer me this! Without those ads, would you even know that George Washington crossed the delaware with delicious chunky cambells soup!

The fuck??? I like posts all the time, followed 8 people, and have a few posts…I have 3 followers.

Stop making me sad sir!!!

Kinda weird that I’m rooting for reddit, a company I hate, against Nintendo, a company that usually brings me joy.

But here we are.

I tried googling that to see if there was a hidden pop culture reference that flew over my head. Kind of like asking for a phone number and replying “867-5309”

Google results first listed a calculator, which solved the equation. -8037 btw.

The next page of results were auto detailing body shops in my area. Which I have to assume are personalized google results, and not an intended point of the joke on your end.

So in the end, I realized we have two different joke phone numbers. Anything with a 555 prefix, is always fake. AND 867-5309 is also always a joke answer.

But we don’t have ANY joke social security numbers!

Hey, what’s your social security number, real quick! Don’t even think about it! Just post it!

No it won’t. It will prop itself up on labor exploited from the working class.

It’s the middle class that will collapse. Eventually everybody will be poor. Nobody but the rich will own land. It’ll all be one big exploitation of it’s people. Just as russia has done for 1000 years before us.

That’s the goal, didn’t you know? An entire nation of labor slaves without power, and an entire class of elite without empathy.

There was a time when a story could happen, and literally wighin minutes you’d have multiple sources of video, on the scene, as the story happens.

I’m not promoting school shootings. I’m not encouraging them. I’m not glorifying them. But there was a LONG time when I expected a high school shooting to happen, and a high school student would livestream it with a hashtag like #schooladdress #help

Closest I ever saw was Uvalde school security cameras showing police showing up…and being cowards. I will forever call those cowards out. You show up, 30 to 1, all with guns, and you let one student continue to kill at a time when every second is a potential live being saved or lost. They hung out in the lobby. Not only that, they restrained parents from stopping the killer themself.

In my eyes they didn’t just show up and do nothing in the lobby. They actively aided the shooter that day.

Sorry, I went off on a tangent, because it still pisses me off. But yeah, I fully expected one day when twitter was still a source for news, to wake up one day, and see an active shooter scene being broadcast from inside a classroom.

By that definition the wheel is technology. Should we start posting articles about slight changes to the chemical compound used in newer snow tires?

You guys wanna know why Windows>Linux? It’s very simple. You just refuse to accept how simple this answer is, but this has always been the answer.

Windows:

Click the thing. Ok, that did the thing.

Linux:

It’s so easy! Just go into terminal, and I hope you memorized your commands, because not only will you need to remember the command, but you need to make certain there are no typos. Anywhere. Ever. Or the whole thing does not work.

And the userbase are people who may not even be wearing matching socks. Simply because they didn’t notice, or maybe they didn’t care.

So “click the thing” is intuitive. “Memorize the entire ecosystem of commands” is like doing homework.

People don’t like hard things. People like easy things. And if it’s hard, they give up, and play with ball in a cup instead.

Yeah, I just stopped buying products.

It’s almost like listening to my crazy rants predicts the future.

Hope you guys don’t have those loyalty rewards cards to grocery stores or pharmacies. Oh, who am I kidding? All of you do.

Oh nooooooo…

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…anyways.

Twitch currently has a pretty effective moderation method for making sure certain topics or games don’t get featured on their platform.

For example, you can be in a bikini, that’s fine, but you can’t show feet.

You also can’t play the socom games from PS2, because of the idea of glorifying terrorists. Since if they win, the announcer says “terrorists win”.

The point I’m making is, these are abstract concepts that need human monitoring. It wouldn’t be that hard to add twitter/X conversations to that list.

So like, if you have a twitter, you can’t use your twitter on your away screens, or talk about it on stream. The same way you can’t give out an only fans link.

And twitch is owned by amazon. If they REALLY wanted to piss off musk, they could buy bluesky and make it the official microblogging service for all amazon owned services.

So if you have an amazon account, now you have a bluesky account.

And all the actors who act in yhe prime shows? They get signed into bluesky exclusive interaction contracts. Where they only interact with fans on bluesky.

As for CVS? They’re a struggling drug store chain. Amazon already owns whole foods. A grocery store. Would it really be too far out of the realm of plausibility to see them adopt CVS into their too big to fail ecosystem?

Disagree.

A LOT of what I use social media could be classified as brands.

Game Grumps is a youtube show. I’m excited they’re on bluesky.

The Cleveland Guardians are a baseball team in the MLB. I’m excited they’re on bluesky.

You could classify them as brands. They use social media to promote themselves, and I use social media to interact with those brands that isn’t available otherwise.

I don’t know what tailscale is, but based on the context, it sounds like what I mean. As long as it’s handling JUST the handles.

Because realistically, from a computer perspective I would still be @Lost_My_Mind@Lemmy.World from a purely technical behind the scenes standpoint.

All my posts, and such would be hosted on Lemmy.World but from a human perspective, I would just be @Lost_My_Mind

So if you mention me, or message me, you’d be using @Lost_My_Mind but the technicals would take that handle, and say "ok, where do I deliver this? Ah, yes, it’s registered at @Lost_My_Mind@Lemmy.World

So thats where the computers would deliver that message. Even though you, the user, don’t even need to know which instance I’m registered at. No need to display that. Make it FEEL centralized, while actually making it decentralized.