Let me get this straight:
- Person A makes a social network
- People flock to it
- Person A sells the social network to person B
- Networks does a 180, destroying communitie; people outraged.
- Same person A makes a social network
- People flock to it.
- [surely we can predict what is going to happen here, right?]
This doesn’t really change your point at all, but I remember reading the tech news surrounding the Twitter sale to Musk as it was happening. If memory serves, Musk literally made the $420/share purchase offer as a joke, a joke that several lawsuits were filed to decide it was a serious and legally binding offer.
He memed his way into owning Twitter against his will, and then burned down everything to assuage his ego. But because he’s a goddamn billionaire there are literally no repercussions.
is bluesky privately owned? What is preventing this whole thing just happening again?
Bluesky is dead. Long live Mastodon.
Maybe we need to start writing our own articles like this.
there’s quite a few people in this thread with the same weird vitriol as reddit had.
if someone uses bluesky and you don’t, then why make yourself upset over it? i have both mastodon and bluesky. i use both.
I’m not sure why everything has to be a weird competition. some weird us vs. them shitfight.
its literally just a social media platform. jeez.
Because I have seen 10 posts about how Bluesky is the new Twitter on my Lemmy feed in two days. I overreacted a bit, but what you say goes both ways. Absolutely use what you like but there is no need to spam a new platform like that.
its because of all the new accounts that have been made there. that’s likely why you’re seeing so many posts about it.
a mass exodus from one twitter to another is a big deal for a lot of people.
Use word filters for the things you don’t want to see.
The same happened when everyone moved over from Dig to Reddit back in the day. It’s really annoying for like 2 weeks with everyone talking about it, and then it calmed down.
2 weeks? it was a lot longer than that. I mean hell there was a god damn multi-part comic about the “war” between digg and reddit. early reddit was a cringefest.
I do remember there was a sub about it. Don’t remember it infecting much beyond that though after the first few weeks. Perhaps I’m misremembering.
Because we all hate corpos.
May the corpos die
its literally just a social media platform. jeez.
And we know what kind of control the platform owners have. “Just” doesn’t cut it I think.
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Do you just call the owners of any company a Nazi? How are you defining Nazis here?
Judging by your upvotes I must be out of the loop on something here.I tried to look into this claim and all I found was a CEO that’s also a software dev Jay Graber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber (Nothing controversial that I could find in her posts at a cursory glance)
A software dev that worked on XMPP (Jeremy Miller): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremie_Miller
And the CEO and founder of TechDirt (Mike Masnick): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Masnick
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I’ve never looked into Blockchain Capital much before, some quick search results show that they have invested in BlueSky (not enough to own/run the company from what I could find), but I don’t see anything that associates them with nazis.
How are you defining nazis here? What leads you to believe that Blockchain Capital is a nazi company? What links are there from Steve Banon to Blockchain Capital?
Long live Activity Pub.
I love that the people who weren’t smart enough to leave Twitter two years ago are now eagerly jumping from one frying pan into another.
Fortunately there have been a few who learned their lessons a bit late and came over to Mastodon.
But the rest of them? The one who tolerated the racism and misogyny that Musk brought with his red pilled idiots? Let them have Blue Sky and the rest of us can watch as history eventually repeats itself.
Same as the old boss…
This one is probably also run by a right wing techie as well
I’m OK with that, as long as they keep their mouths shut.
My only interest regarding Bluesky is i don’t care about Bluesky. Long live Mastodon, Lemmy, Fedia, and the rest of the Fediverse!
Lol, Blusky fan boys are quite active today. I’m sure this millionnaire’s toy will be better than the previous one, good luck.
The way I look at it, I know it’s probably going to end up being shit in the end, but it’ll be a few years until that happens, and it will be fun in the meantime.
Just because you know I’ll have to leave at some point doesn’t mean that you don’t enjoy the party while it lasts
And then what? You’ll move to Truth social? Then Thread? And then to X2? Meanwhile there’s a decentralize alternative that gives back the control to users, you’re welcome to join.
I don’t think it’d have to be either or. People can join both or just one it doesn’t really matter, If it ends up being another dumpster fire then people will move off just like they did X.
Most people will go where most of the people are going and that’s blue sky not Mastodon.
I disagree. People that didn’t left twitter when Musk took over are like people who didn’t vote in the US election: enablers. In my opinion, if you accept to take part in the nazi shithole that X is, you are in the end validating it’s existence.
What are you disagreeing with exactly because I didn’t say anything about X.
I’m taking about Mastodon versus bluesky
I think joining bluesky is validating another for-profit business that will do anything to profit from it’s userbase. Like facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Titktok, etc. the ONLY goal of capitalist business is to generate profit, so they will throw you under the bus the very second they think they can make more money by doing do. But yeah, you’re free to join bluesky until it becomes so shitty that you’ll want to join the shinny new capitalist alternative, created by the exact same people lol.
Maybe they should have done this about a year ago.
Twitter is dead. Long live [name]. I saw this show before.
Just because democrats are leaving Twitter, this doesn’t make it dead in the slightest sense of the word
The feetdraggers will slowly, begrudgingly follow–as always.
If I want an echo chamber, I’ll just go back to reddit. Bluesky is ass.
idk why the downvotes. you’re right.
Because Lemmy is equally an echo chamber, and historically people do not like being reminded of inconvenient truths.
Lemmy is an echo chamber you make yourself tho. There are no algorithms that push certain content to you. Obviously, if you only lurk on shit like hexbear, my condolences, but I don’t feel like Lemmy is an echo chamber, at least much less than reddit was.
In Bluesky you choose your own algorithms by adding feeds you follow.
Dunno. Unless they just output feeds in chronological order and maybe add some filter which I have explicitly defined myself, I’m not trusting any algorithms.
The Following feed is chronological and every other feed is mostly made by other people.
Echo chambers are not dependent on having an algorithmic feed. It just matters that the people you talk with and the information you consume, etc, filter out dissenting opinions from what you hold.
Lemmy is still very much an echo chamber simply by virtue of the people who tend to be here. But we can balance that with time spent on other platforms, IRL relationships, etc.
An echo chamber is an echo chamber. Whether natural or artificial. Lemmy is extremely one sided. Dissenting opinions are not tolerated nor welcome (from a political standpoint). Perhaps less so than reddit as Lemmy user base is much smaller.
I like the X on top of the bird. Nice
