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

• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• naught101@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everything you just said is also true of mastodon.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mastodon doesn’t have a single aggregated community. It’s fractured, such that joining one instance doesn’t guarantee access to another user’s content easily.

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is the same not true of Lemmy?

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Lemmy doesn’t have anywhere close to Bluesky’s use base

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I didn’t know Mastadon monetizes

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