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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There are so many issues with this, lots of wrong information, recommendations of stuff that's bad and really shouldn't be recommended and stuff that really should be there isn't. Please don't share it this further, it's absolutely shit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

"Perfect is the enemy of good. Please accept this slop."

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

TBF, it says "European", not "good".

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It gets very obvious when it reccomends basically just volkswagens and volkswagen rebadges under cars.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Oh no this is wrong"... proceeds to shit on it, not provide a single example or correction

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

BlueSky is not owned by a non profit. First row.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not in it but I have been told it's almost impossible to control the narrative as Muskrat does on Twitter

It is held by a benefit corporation which means they have to, at least pretend, to bring some societal benefit

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While AT Protocol is sort of federated in a sense, no one really runs aggregators (which serves half of the role an instance does in ActivityPub) besides BlueSky themselves, so they can still control it if they wanted to.

Also, "normal" for profit companies can also pretend to want to bring good to the world. It's misinformation because public benefit companies are allowed to collect a profit (post says non profit).

I still believe BlueSky is world's better than Twitter! But it's important to be honest about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Home to Go is just a search engine for VRBO, which is a US company owned by Expedia. It is not a replacement for Airbnb, nor does it stop supporting US companies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Good to know. See? Some actual actionable information

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So whats a better list, or what should be removed?