is bluesky privately owned? What is preventing this whole thing just happening again?
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.
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.
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.
Bluesky is dead. Long live Mastodon.
Maybe we need to start writing our own articles like this.
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.
Long live Activity Pub.
Same as the old boss…
Maybe they should have done this about a year ago.
Bluesky can fuck right off as well. I tried it to see if it was any different than Twitter but I had to nope out after 10 minutes.
I’ve never understood the whole Twitter formula anyways. Scroll through endless ramblings of people I don’t care about? No thanks.
There are far better places to stay informed about certain topics or get in touch with people you know.
Not every social media format is for everyone, no need to be hostile about it. I just can’t bring myself to engage with TikTok and Reels and such, but other people really like them and why would that be a problem for me?
What about his comment is hostile?
These parts:
Bluesky can fuck right off as well. I tried it to see if it was any different than Twitter but I had to nope out after 10 minutes.
I’ve never understood the whole Twitter formula anyways. Scroll through endless ramblings of people I don’t care about? No thanks.
There are far better places to stay informed about certain topics or get in touch with people you know.
Pitch perfect snark, 10/10.
Yeeeah, none of those are particularly hostile sounding to me. He just doesn’t like the platform and is stating so. Notice how he didn’t say something like “Anyone who likes BlueSky can fuck right off”. He shared his opinion on an inanimate webpage, thats all.
There isn’t a better place to get sports news than twitter. I’m seeing a lot of sports writers personalities start to post on Blue sky. I love it.
Normies leaving X like its edgy
Fuck Ian dunt the Tory cunt
Is there any FOSS Bluesky client. I want to give it a shot after so many artist moved to it from Xhitter. Even some game dev like Localthunk(Balatro) and ZUN(Touhou) moved to it.
I’ve noticed quite a lot of devs are moving over to blue sky. I feel like there’s some blog post I’ve missed or something which everyone has paid attention to. Why are they doing it now? Twitter has being shit for ages.
Thanks.
I like the X on top of the bird. Nice
