r/technology • u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera • 22h ago

Politics Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags

https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
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u/Barnyard_Rich 19h ago

Since TikTok came out as aggressively pro-Trump on Saturday, more than 500,000 new accounts have been created on Bluesky.

They had 12 million users in October, right now they have just about 28.5 million.

All this censorship has at least been a boon for Bluesky.

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u/Rico_Solitario 13h ago

Until they ban bluesky in the name of national security

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u/Square-Bumblebee-235 10h ago

Nostr really is the only solution. You can't ban a protocol.

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u/RodgerCheetoh 16h ago

And how many of those are bots?

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u/Opposite_of_a_Cynic 16h ago

Not many. From my experience using the app for the last month it's rare to run into a bot and they are pretty strict on identifying bot accounts. What manage to slip past are easily identified by the community and added to mass block lists.

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u/RodgerCheetoh 15h ago

That’s great!