- 2 hours
Honestly, people are still on twitter, majority aren’t moving to mastodon or bluesky. The most successful is Lemmy in my opinion.
- 1 hour
I’ll take the principled approach and not support fascist enabling corporations from the United States. The way I look at it is if you can’t say no to supporting these platforms, then you’re complicit as well. This is most relevant with X .
- 6 hours
BlueSky pays lip service to federation, but they’ve set it up so that they’ve got effective control of 99% of the network. It’s a sham to convince people they’re different from every other corporate-owned social media platform, but it really isn’t.
- ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
I mean, generally I agree, but what gives me pause here is that Graber is basically moving into a focus on federation full-time. A leadership change like this would be a perfect moment to pivot away from atproto and into a more walled garden, but Graber isn’t even leaving the company.
This could just be theatrics, but it’s at least interesting that they aren’t taking this opportunity to close it all off when they absolutely could.
- 43 minutes
It is theatrics. They know they’ve already got literally the entire userbase on their server, so none of this actually matters.
When Bluesky inevitably enshittifies, they take the whole network down with them.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyzEnglish10 hours
People should be switching to Mastodon with how clear the coming enshittification is. User data is valuable, and the way ATProto siloes data from multiple platforms using the protocol encourages them to entrench the dominance of the official Bluesky PDS to maximize data collection. With $100 million in venture capital, Bluesky is in no way incentivized to meaningfully decentralize its platform.
Before subscriptions or advertising turn it into just another Twitter clone, users should be migrating to Mastodon.
7 hoursUsers should’ve gone to mastodon to begin with. Why the fuck would they leave a monolithic corpo platform for another monolithic corpo platform? It’s stupid.
- 5 hours
It’s certainly frustrating watching people make the same mistake over and over.
Because you’re not spoon fed by algorithm on mastodon. People these days apparently want to see “cool shit” without actually doing anything on their own.
- baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish11 hours
$100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto
The article paints some glowing picture of success and excellence from this move, as if VC doesn’t expect some huge return on investment from a service which hasn’t made a dime. “They’ll make money on premium subscriptions and business services”…. Right, ok.
“We’re rolling out tasteful, relevant, safe ads” in 5…4…3…
- expr@piefed.socialEnglish8 hours
My brother works for a company acquired by Bain. They are every bit the vulture capitalists bleeding companies into lifeless husks.
- panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish11 hours
I could see running a service to host blue sky services for governments and companies being a good compromise.
You don’t need $100M to do that.
- borth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 hours
But then how will the CEO get that $25-50M bonus? Won’t someone think of the poor CEOs…
It’s already on BlueSky. As soon as that techsis CEO bitch let fascists onto the platform, and even before that with throwing trans people under the bus, PooSky was already enshittified.
Blue Sky…officially becoming the Liberal X. Right down to the enshittification.
All Bluesky needs is militant tankies and the shift is complete. 🙃
I have never run into any, but I’d have to assume there are just based off of the fact that anyone can host an instance.
I wouldn’t know…never been there. I was just making a parallel to X’s child fucking Nazi problem. 😕
