Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
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Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
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Which of these commercial platforms did not ever plot for that?
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lol
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This article is all you need to read to understand why bluesky will just be another shitstain in the history of social media.
Let’s back up. How did you end up starting a decentralized social platform?
Its still not (in any practical way) and never will be.
How do you plan to make money?
Subscriptions are coming soon. [...] Other apps in the ecosystem are experimenting with sponsored posts and things like that. I think ads eventually, in some form, work their way in, but we’re not going to do ads the way traditional social apps did. We’ll let people experiment and see what comes out of it.
As literally everyone with a brain expected. This is also why there will never be unrestricted federation because it would threaten their profit model.
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https://bsky.app/profile/bad-example.com/post/3loe7iy2gdc2c
Now that dozens of people are hosting their own relays and we have third-party AppViews, the first posts are being made to Bluesky without using any of Bluesky PBC's architecture, but sure it's not decentralized and will never happen or whatever.
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I dont think you understand how and why decentralization works. Its about democratization of digital platforms and that requires a power hierarchy that is as flat as possible (in terms of AT Protocol instances).
To achieve this bluesky.social would have to close registrations and push people to other instances. Unless you have a roughly equal user distribution between at least 4-5 instances that are completely independent in terms of financing, governance and location, there will never be a bluesky that is resistant to enshittification.
Basically as long as any decision that bluesky.social makes is considered absolute law, all existing federation has zero effect.
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People here are going to celebrate when Bluesky fails and people are left with less and much worse options again. People here have been clamoring for Bluesky's downfall since I got here and it's pretty ridiculous. At least women didn't have to scratch and claw and fight just to exist on that platform. For all of the pearl clutching and purity checking that goes on here on Lemmy, there's a lot of neckbeards that are terrified of cooties who can't understand why someone would choose to be somewhere else.
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