It really is remarkable how two giants of the industry lost so much so quickly.
I’m hoping Bluesky does join the fediverse just so I don’t have to jump between apps. Lemmy has been great, but people don’t comment as much. I miss that
the birdsite was a plague even before musk came along. lots of people found the culture that developed, and the sort of behavior the platform seemed to encourage, pretty anti-social all on its own. dorsey, as the dude who was ostensibly steering that ship, bears some responsibility as to how twitter shook out. more generally though, trusting people that were deeply involved in the rise of web 2.0 and the surveillance economy that came with it is kinda impossible for a lot of folks. twitter is spyware. reddit is spyware. google is spyware. all of it is infested with ads and exploitation and nfts. dorsey is a capitalist, and it seems naive to many to assume that the next thing he makes is not going to be just as poisoned by the incentives of a profit motive as twitter was. dorsey still stands to make a lot of money off of whatever he builds, and the most profitable thing about modern social media platforms is selling peoples personal data to advertising companies.
in other words, the social media empires that built the modern web are dogshit not because the people building them made a mistake, or failed to consider the consequences of their influence, but because they wanted it to be built this way to maximize shareholder profits. any internet infrastructure built by the same people, or funded by venture capitalists, therefore, is not to be trusted. we’ve seen and are currently seeing what happens to platforms run for a profit motive eventually, and what sort of bullshit the people running those platforms can get up to if they choose to, and continuing to grant these people control over our digital lives is foolish, especially when alternatives now exist.
Bluesky is not to be trusted. They have no interest in joining the fediverse and are doing everything they can to establish an alternative that puts them on the center of the at protocol, so they can become a middleman in all communications and they will try to profit using a crypto angle.
Regarding not commenting as much. Interesting I tend to comment a lot more then I post and when I post it is usually a question I need help with. Sometimes I feel a little bad about not adding posts that much. Only reason I mention this is it makes me feel a little better about my patterns… i.e. more commenting. Thanks.
True. Hopefully not just Bluesky but all user-generated platforms are built on the fediverse. It’s just gonna take a lot of time to catch on. The fediverse isnt easy to use for a lot of the non-techies. But getting better!
It really is remarkable how two giants of the industry lost so much so quickly.
I’m hoping Bluesky does join the fediverse just so I don’t have to jump between apps. Lemmy has been great, but people don’t comment as much. I miss that
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Could you elaborate? Genuinely curious as to why
the birdsite was a plague even before musk came along. lots of people found the culture that developed, and the sort of behavior the platform seemed to encourage, pretty anti-social all on its own. dorsey, as the dude who was ostensibly steering that ship, bears some responsibility as to how twitter shook out. more generally though, trusting people that were deeply involved in the rise of web 2.0 and the surveillance economy that came with it is kinda impossible for a lot of folks. twitter is spyware. reddit is spyware. google is spyware. all of it is infested with ads and exploitation and nfts. dorsey is a capitalist, and it seems naive to many to assume that the next thing he makes is not going to be just as poisoned by the incentives of a profit motive as twitter was. dorsey still stands to make a lot of money off of whatever he builds, and the most profitable thing about modern social media platforms is selling peoples personal data to advertising companies.
in other words, the social media empires that built the modern web are dogshit not because the people building them made a mistake, or failed to consider the consequences of their influence, but because they wanted it to be built this way to maximize shareholder profits. any internet infrastructure built by the same people, or funded by venture capitalists, therefore, is not to be trusted. we’ve seen and are currently seeing what happens to platforms run for a profit motive eventually, and what sort of bullshit the people running those platforms can get up to if they choose to, and continuing to grant these people control over our digital lives is foolish, especially when alternatives now exist.
Bluesky is not to be trusted. They have no interest in joining the fediverse and are doing everything they can to establish an alternative that puts them on the center of the at protocol, so they can become a middleman in all communications and they will try to profit using a crypto angle.
I feel like the quality of comments has been higher here. So far anyway 🤣
Regarding not commenting as much. Interesting I tend to comment a lot more then I post and when I post it is usually a question I need help with. Sometimes I feel a little bad about not adding posts that much. Only reason I mention this is it makes me feel a little better about my patterns… i.e. more commenting. Thanks.
True. Hopefully not just Bluesky but all user-generated platforms are built on the fediverse. It’s just gonna take a lot of time to catch on. The fediverse isnt easy to use for a lot of the non-techies. But getting better!
It’s definitely getting better! The hardest part is finding a local instance that suits you, I think.
It’s a shame BlueSky made its own protocol instead of ActivityPub.