Bluesky has a better art protocol but if theyre too overwhelmed to block those that need to be blocked theres a danger point. Mastodon has no future in itself due to how fractured everything is (to a social social media user, its far too complex to set up)
I can see the public going back to blogs if this flops and yeesh. So much for visibility.
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A little more curation and journos posting here and i can make this my new news main.
For art, its still the issue of getting non-artists to go to a site, so whichever has the most non-artist friendly interface will win.
A good catch to know if someone's being disingenuous about disney and picked a political side is if they blame wokeness or anything US side for disney plus losing net subscribers.
Its been documented the losses (2.4 mil) stemmed from SE Asia and india and was mostly tied to hotstar losing the streaming rights to the Indian Premier League.
Its been common enough to know that if someone has talked about disney plus losing subs without it, I know they picked a side.
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