Welsh friend also points out that the now ex Tunisia manager used to manage Cardiff and the victorious Sweden manager used to manage Swansea.

Probably doesn't help when your near neighbours just held Brazil

Blimey Trigg - surely there’s no great shame in losing to Sweden, seems harsh.

Tunisia have sacked their manager after one World Cup game

*(I did mention Trump recently, but I’m not sure if that counts?)

Spart - you’re right, I did do that, so apologies - I did think it was worth having this discussion about social media though. In truth, I haven’t mentioned any political parties or even politicians as such, nor used the terms “left/right” etc, but fair point, and it’s certainly not worth anyone having an argument about.

Not VK as in VKontakte?

Sorry - Laurence not OI

I remember ICQ OI. Used it for a while

It's funny how a4e goes on at the rest of us about not talking politics on here because it causes arguments, but he always finds ways of writing the odd snidey political remark himself, while acting all innocent.

Does anyone remember ICQ? It is where I hung out for a long time after my involvement with Dot Com boom. ICQ, one of the internet's pioneering instant messaging apps, officially shut down in June 2024 after a 27-year run. The service was completely discontinued, with users encouraged to transition to VK Messenger or VK WorkSpace.

OI - that’s so weird, I wonder what’s going on…

On another tendentious note, should FIFA investigate or ignore? [Link]

Spit, hardly I got told off by a4e moderator bot for just mentioning Josh Simmons and not in a political context at all

Airsy - spot on about X, you won’t find groomer and trafficker Andrew Tate or serial crook Tommy Ten Names on BlueSky whipping up race hate riots with their lies and misinformation, that’s the main positive difference…

Didn't Friends Reunited just turn into Facebook?

It's also a haven for those of us who remember what their Twitter feed was like before Space Karen took over and filled it with AI bots and other weird shit

A labour goverment isnt going to ban a very left leaning platform is it

Bring back Friends Reunited!!

Trigg is correct too - it’s a haven for us Waitrose organic avocado munching Guardianistas…

I will have to check my kids' Friendster, Vine & Bebo accounts immediately!

Preston - not sure whether this helps, maybe not, but when Jack Dorsey left the board of BlueSky (having co-founded it), he cited its use of “centralized moderation” as a reason, whereas Twitter was (his words) “freedom technology” - in other words, he preferred that people could be as racist, homophobic, and misogynistic as they liked, whereas that element would be much more likely to be moderated out by BlueSky safety. I guess it just depends which side of the “abuse is ok/not ok” fence someone is. BlueSky may end up being added to that list, or X may get removed from it - time will tell I guess…

Teens wouldn’t be seen dead on bluesky it’s the social media equivalent of an old people’s home.

I was much more along the lines of “why has Twitter/X been added to the list, but not BlueSky?”

Has the putney bridge pusher been found?[Link]