Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users.

blindbunny@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I agree with you, the number/the rise of users on such platforms makes me feel sick. There literally is a built, proven, & running alternative. The difference is what, “the onboarding process” which insurance to choose if you wanna post & vote?

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  • blindbunny@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Always reminds me that George Carlin was right

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  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You mean the alternative where a random person decides what people you’re allowed to interact with?

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are people running megacorps not random persons, but with extra wealth concentration?

      And the beauty of federation is that the process is (and is evolving ever more into) a bit more democratic with easier transitions or irrelevancy of what your home fedistan is.

      With megacorps you don’t have even the theoretical option, you can just move to an entirely new platform.

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      • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is wty we need social networks where you can choose your moderation independently of your instance. And Mastodon is not that. I’m not sure if Bluesky is.

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• stevo887@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It didn’t say anything except share some stats. What part of that was disgusting?

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  • blindbunny@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That that many people are willing to hop on another VC funded platform.

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    • stevo887@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The average person doesn’t care about that and large scale development cost money. It doesn’t really bother me either if it’s being run respectfully and I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt until it’s not.

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