Well yeah, all religion is a bit odd. It’s great when it provides community, charity, or meaning to the lives of individuals, but it’s very easy to slip into the bad stuff

Huh. Seems a bit odd, but if you’re having a good time and not hurting anyone then more power to you

online spaces for witches and covens

Dare I ask what this means? Is it a LARP thing? Assuming you just want a social community tool then what’s wrong with the existing options? If you want it private then something like revolt or matrix; and if you want it public then something like lemmy or mastodon, maybe with a defederate-by-default attitude so you’re only connecting to other similarly-focused instances.

Won’t someone please think of the billion-dollar megacorp’s lost ad revenue!

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Why would the American government ban companies based under their own jurisdiction? They can make use of all those other companies just like the Chinese government can make use of TikTok.

Is it really crazy? Most users don’t give a shit about the tech or politics, they just want to go where the people they are interested in are, and most of them don’t care either! Bluesky is actively promoting itself as the new old Twitter, so that’s where people who want that are going.