@GottaLaff good morning Laffy.

[cawguy@mstdn.ca]

@chris I don’t have Insta so I can’t test it myself: that’s why I rely on so many here for “taking one for the team” by keeping their pulse on those other platforms.

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@CAWguy well, my version of pulse keeper, my wife, may soon be extricated from those hellscapes as well, she was noticing a bunch of her friends leaving FB for Bluesky. The exodus is real!

[john@vyrse.social]

@chris @CAWguy
(sigh) I wish they were exodusing to somewhere without another round of hefty switching costs in future, but...yay?

[clintonanderson@universeodon.com]

@john @chris @CAWguy

Yeah, Bluesky is just another scumbag

[ikuo1000@mas.to]

@chris @GottaLaff To confirm, I'm in the US and just checked, the following searches on Instagram are still returning no results for me, as if the hashtag doesn't exist:

#democrat
#democrats
#democraticparty
#voteblue
#postcardstovoters
#abortion
#climatecrisis

H/T @foodnpolitics for additional hashtags to check

[ikuo1000@mas.to]

@chris @CAWguy I appreciate this article existing but think the reporter could have done a LITTLE more legwork as this "technical problem" is affecting a lot more hashtags than just "democrat(s)".

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@ikuo1000 @CAWguy indeed

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@john @CAWguy indeed. I encouraged her to post a link to socialbc.ca (it was all local folks) instead of bluesky. We'll see how it goes! But ya bluesky will get shut down within a month at this rate...

[john@vyrse.social]

@chris because of volume or...?

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@john no, I believe once it gets large enough that Zuck, Musk and the like think it a threat it will either get bought out or the current owners/backers will be arm twisted into the same bootlicking the rest of corporate social media America is in.