Also trying out Bluesky, and it is a lot like Twitter used to be, but it has the potential to turn out like Xitter is today, because at the end of the day Bluesky is a for-profit startup corporation.

Sooner or later, Bluesky is going to want to make money for its shareholders, and that means any of: 1) Selling advertisements, 2) Selling your personal data, and/or 3) In a classic tech startup play, selling itself to the highest bidder like: Android, YouTube, and yes, Twitter.

And with commercialization, or in Xitter’s case a fool with too much money, comes enshittification.

Lemmy is nothing like a for-profit startup company, as far as I know, but that doesn’t make it enshittification-proof, but at least it won’t take the commercialization route.

The world’s leading producer of solar equipment, China, loves this, and will happily sell more “dual use” weapon components to Russia, so they can sell replacement solar equipment to Ukraine.

No satellite photos of the ammo depot they targeted yet, so we’ll have to see whether they were successful…

I hope the UAF makes good use of it in the month or so before Trump takes office…

At least his family knows where he is…