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The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social (www.technologyreview.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are two points I want to make here. The first is that tech and politics are just entirely enmeshed at this point. That’s due to the extreme extent to which tech has captured culture and the economy. Everything is a tech story now, including and especially politics.

The second point is about what I see as a more long-term shift away from centralization. What’s more interesting to me than people fleeing a service because they don’t like its politics is the emergence of unique experiences and cultures across all three of these services, as well as other, smaller competitors.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

"Splintering" sounds kinda negative, which bothers me. It's a good thing if there's less in the way of walled garden monopolies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed - it's more like diversification, or "not putting all egg-users in the same basket-platform".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Diversification is definitely a better word

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Is “Balkanizing” a better term?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Actually, it does sound more neutral to my ear, but I don't know why considering it's from the damn breakup of Yugoslavia, which ended with a genocide.