Comment on Why I recommend against Bluesky.

Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I get the mentality, but that’s the problem with enshitification. It always starts good, but once all the twitter traffic moves over, and the world becomes dependent on BlueSky the way it still is for Twitter, what do they become next?

  It would be better to push people away from the closed platform and towards the actual open platform.

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  • Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    maybe it would be simple to fork this source code and form your own community

    The network effect makes this extremely difficult, even with the source code, it’s basically starting from scratch again.

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  • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The devs also made it clear that if ever bsky became crap, the system is made so that you could just jump over to another instance and go from there.

    So far so good, but yeah I get it, the more they talk about investors, the more I’m reluctant to jump in fully.

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    • MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except they haven’t actually backed that up with a way for you to jump servers. If the central Bsky server goes down, it takes the network with it. Until they actually let other people host, it’s just meaningless posturing. Without a way for people to leave their network you are as captive there as you are on Twitter

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  • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is a recent community project that focuses on federating Bluesky without the Bluesky devs’ involvement:

    Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’ | The Verge

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This would be good. I just hope it can do so while still being a part of BlueSky (as it is today).

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll advocate against it if shareholders start shenanigans

  I mean, they will. It’s inevitable. So why bother? BlueSky also ultimately retains the final word on moderation as well.

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• NENathaniel@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not a non-profit like Mastodon so, seems inevitable

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