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Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All (slate.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Things were better before they got worse, sure.

But the problem in these systems is the trade off between centralization (consolidated control and monolithic content) and federation (poor navigation/petty administrative feuds/less quality content). Switching from Twitter to BlueSky relieves you from the current admin's fuckups, but you're still stuck in a flawed system.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I fully agree. When I feel like using a Twitter like platform (which is exceedingly rare), I use Mastodon