I guess I’m glad I was never a big Twat, so Bluesky wasn’t a place of refuge for me the way Lemmy was when Reddit went off the rails.
Bsky enhittified the day it was formed.
The problem: Twitter is being centrally controlled, by one large corporation which can be corrupted.
The solution: A new “company” with a “trusted board” instead of investors!
Bsky is slowly becoming twitter because someone who thinks like businessman can’t comprehend running a project without a company and a “trusted board” behind it, with capital from elsewhere fueling the whole thing. Jack Dorsey probably had good intentions, but he’s just too near sighted (or not the right person) to create a viable alternative disconnected from the business minded framework a true open decentralized twitter replacement needed.It’s basically just Twitter in the early days, way before the Musk takeover. It will follow the same path eventually, as all VC funded tech
People forget that Twitter turned to shit long before musk showed up. They were the ones who refused to enforce their own TOS for trump for years.
When Sam Altman buys Bluesky, you can expect the cycle to repeat itself.
i stopped using twitter around 2013 after adopting it in 2007. i deleted my account entirely when it sold
Everything was pointing Mastodon until Bluesky came. And guess what? Turns out the problem is and always has been corporations and centralized ownership.
Mastodon has shit branding and I’m not afraid to say it.
What’s wrong with toots?
Wow, i ratiod the hell out of that guy on my last queef
Obama rebarfed me!
I cant believe tom cruise sharted that!
I hope you’re equally not afraid to contribute to it then
Mastodon has a very singular type of user and circle jerk communities. Maybe it’ll grow out of its tweeny phase some day. But until then, it will only attract more of the same crowd. Much to its detriment.
Does it come from the US?
Is it open source?
Are the people behind it overwhelmingly wealthy?
If (TRUE, FALSE, TRUE) 100% you should stay away from it.
I’d swap “open source: false” with “closed source: true” so the pattern is consistent.
I considered it but not closed source doesn’t automatically mean open source so I preferred to be more rigorous.
No surprise. Y’all are dumb if you think the point of all social media isn’t to just make money.
Does that include Lemmy and Mastodon?
Both of those are federated options with no central company behind them. They have issues, but not because they have a corporate algorithm feeding their users.
So not all social media, gotcha.
How it feels to be vindicated for not trusting/buying-in to a new fad
Not as good as I’d like.
Still kinda good
I really wonder if Mastodon would have done better with a nicer, more techy name. Also, it’s silly but the double @ usernames look worse than the AT proto usernames.
The bluesky rise kinda pissed me off. More so because all my artist friends that were on twitter went to bluesky instead of Mastodon when I told them about it as an alternative. everyone collectively decided to ignore a system that already existed and to the centralized thing again. Big suprise.
Bluesky was easier to sign up and less confusing to use. It had a much better mobile app. A lot of pro newsies came to Mastodon and were roundly ejected and abused, so they up and went to Blurdky instead. That was a major shooting your own foot moment for Mastodon because those newsies would have brought engaged audience. I saw people celebrating at Mastodon when news reporters up and quit. Idiotic. I hope the Lemmy community doesn’t repeat that mistake.
Lemmy’s been stable and perfectly enjoyable for years.
I’d like to see it grow but even if it doesn’t I’m cool with that.
Use mastodon and the fediverse
It seems this fediverse thing is the real innovation, not twitter clones.
So, another Caesar huh?
Oh damn. It’s rotten all the way to the core.
Oh wait. I’m on mastodon. The correct platform to have migrated to
At some point they are going to have to make money.
The fediverse:
It’s literally a twitter clone, what did you expect?
Just get off twitter, FFS. That entire website is a bane on humanity.
They’re not doing anything to the app though, this is a standalone thing.
Yet. They aren’t doing anything to the app yet.
Call me when they do. Until then I’m using it. 🙂👍
ITT: headline readers that judge with their full weight on minimal information
Lemmy really is just like reddit :)
Are you lost?
“A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype.”
We don’t need nuance to hate on every appearance of AI enshittifying something.
I have no problem with people talking shit on AI, my comment is about the fact people are reacting to what they think the subject of the headline is as opposed to what is written in the article.
FYI “are you lost” is a pretty rude way to start a conversation. I wasn’t trying to hurt you
