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Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky.

You could just stay on the biggest mastadon instance and not care about anything. Wouldn’t be too different than just using bluesky.

Preferring handcuffs because it’s more seemless sounds like a terrible mindset

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Preferring handcuffs because it’s more seemless

They’re not handcuffs. You can always log off.

But the big appeal of BlueSky is the initialization of the interface. It defaults you to “Following” rather than “Discover” and isn’t jamming a ton of ads in your feed. There’s basically no algorithm. Its a very basic service, rather than an engineered mess. More akin to Facebook or Twitter from back in the '00s, before monetization ruined them.

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- naught101@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Everything you just said is also true of mastodon.
  
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  - pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah I didn’t know Mastadon monetizes
    
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- supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  the big appeal of BlueSky is the initialization of the interface. It defaults you to “Following” rather than “Discover” and isn’t jamming a ton of ads in your feed. There’s basically no algorithm. Its a very basic service, rather than an engineered mess. More akin to Facebook or Twitter from back in the '00s, before monetization ruined them.
  
  The big appeal of bluesky is that it is in the early stages of monetization that hinges on effectively enclosing a commons so that everybody chooses the product and everything else effectively dies off. The next stage will come, which is when the enshittification happens.
  
  Do you honestly believe there won’t be enshittification because the priorities of the current development in the near future is focused on the benefits of users?
  
  …or to put it another way, do you set a mouse trap with food a mouse finds miserable to eat? Do you think that first bite of cheese accurately depicts the reality about to unfold?
  
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