For another data point I can search any of those terms on the shortlist that was posted just fine, using Facebook on the website. Either searching for posts or videos. May be app specific or something that was very temporary? Located in US. No Instagram account.

FB was started with government money

Ah I remember getting Zips when I lived out in the PNW just after the millennium, good stuff.

I mean that works, better than nothing. I was thinking like a web ui where you enter search terms

Someone should make a searchable frontend for this

You know how they say “cool beans?” Mine is lukewarm.

Saw this today on there, apparently “follow farming” is going to be a thing as long as this 3rd party app doing autofollows of people who follow other accounts exists. Generally I’m going to treat random followers as influence operation peddling bots until I start posting on my account.

Right now I’m finding accounts that I like to read and trying to build up a base of people to see if I can create a worthwhile feed. Still not a proof-of-concept use case for doing Bluesky long term but potentially will be interesting enough to stick around in a couple weeks. I can’t imagine the awful user experience for people who are just rawdogging it though.

I’m guessing they meant cognitive dissonance? Never seen this abbreviation though and probably wont be using it myself

Similar to how Netanyahu’s faction in Israel kept funding Hamas to justify their objectives on control of the state.

This ask reminds me of this Kids in the Hall sketch

https://youtu.be/lStcwT_RGrQ

I think that’s just social media now. I’m still on fb for some reason and the vast majority of the promoted accounts seem fake, and I get followed by porn and crypto bots there. Lemmy is smaller so it’s more like drinking from a stream than a river but still a few creeps, trolls and bots here but a lot less.

Seeing Bluesky makes me appreciate Lemmy more, even if it can get echoey sometimes.

I got the 2 month free trial recently and have yet to see an ad with it. Don’t plan on continuing the service if I do see one.

As much as I respect Ghengis Khan and his ilk, I will not stop listening to that Devo song.

Unprecendented geopolitical pressures had him signing this rather than any ill will toward lgbtq folks I’m sure. If only the Line-Item Veto had become law.

I dont get it

Nice, I’ve always wanted one of those

How much do native Greenlanders like being governed by Denmark, would they conceivably be better off as US citizens? Obviously self governance is best but could they defend their own territory in that case. I think there’s a case to be made for this idea and few Americans regret having Alaska as part of the union.

Ok you’ve got me thinking, theres never been a Nazbol state to my knowledge but what was the most successful faction they ever mustered? Or is it just a hypothetical? Seems like a very unstable hybridization as they are so different, although they both believe in a strong, authoritarian state and hate capitalism…

He’s made a big deal before about how he’s “new” rich rather than old money, and how more established wealth looked down their noses at his gaudy lifestyle. So it’s plausible that he thinks the actual elite are another step up from where he is

bird flu pandemic will most likely be far worse than COVID was, and the virus is all around us just waiting for the right mutation.

I keep hearing this but its unclear to me why we should expect this strain to be worse than say, the Swine Flu that hit several years before Covid? I know it caused a few deaths but was generally pretty forgettable and short lived in peoples awareness.