I have a really hard time seeing a difference between X and Bluesky. Both are run by billionaires for their amusement and benefit. Why are people so hopeful about bluesky?
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Because one of them is actively promoting and favouring viewpoints many people find abhorrent.
The fact it's owned by a billionaire isn't the major concern for most people.
Yes. Having centralized ownership (to whatever extent) is a concern for sure, but it's a hypothetical concern in and of itself: "what if the leadership does bad things?" Is different from "the leadership is currently doing bad things."
Decentralization helps. But if the networks effects aren't behind it, jumping from platform to platform when things DO get bad is also viable.
Who's the billionaire?
X Corp. is majorly owned by Elon Musk
I was talking about Bluesky.
Bkuesky was started by the former owners of Twitter.
The problem is not that they are billionaires. But one is run by an obvious malignant narcissist, and the other is not.
One is responsible the other is not.
Here's a very down to earth explanation of why Twitter after Musk became an ethical problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8zfgIgZ4c0
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When bluesky gets enshitified i wont be suprised. Imagine tge alternative reality we could have had if they chose activpub.
Doesn't Threads use AP?
Yeah and contraversial take i think as long as there are strict rules about not allowing single direction federation or federating ads then they should be allowed to fededate.
Pages that don't work well with darkreader aren't many, but when they do fail they fail somewhat entertainingly:
Oh, gee, there's this thing called Bluesky that's an alternative to Xitter?
Never seen anything about it ever posted here and in every other community before, thanks for letting us know!
I'm getting Google+ vibes.
Black Death as a Viable Alternative for Cholera.