So, I'm late to the party and clueless as a rule, so what's the deal with #Bluesky ?

[munk@fosstodon.org]

So, I'm late to the party and clueless as a rule, so what's the deal with #Bluesky ?

[nickdumas@fosstodon.org]

@munk It's a shockingly unsurprising heel turn. A for-profit enterprise backed by venture capital and cryptocurrency investors is starting to show its hand.

It was founded by the former Twitter CEO. The "decentralized" part of the technology keeps not being delivered.

They don't actually care about helping people freely connect with each other, or at least the incentive structure strongly deprioritizes doing so.

[munk@fosstodon.org]

@nickdumas
Ah. Yes, shockingly unsurprising, and amazingly banal.
Thx

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@munk @nickdumas also the Bluesky CEO and team keep on defending this transphobic user that everyone wants off the platform: https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3m25esnq4t22y

Idk I don't understand why anyone would think that trading one centralised platform for another centralised platform solves any problems.

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@Gina @munk @nickdumas

I'm unsure about this drama.
If we culturally shift from platforms to protocols, and they seem to want to take the protocol direction too, people can't really be banned or deplatformed by a single instance anyway.

The way you can't in real life, unless there's something illegal, not unethical, in a specific Country.
A giant instance ( a worldwide delegated moderation) will never work.

It needs for individuals choices to isolate/ban people.
Bluesky users have to understand it's not meant to be twitter