Okay, but is bluesky at least a setting stone for people to be in a slightly better place than Faceook or Twitter? I don’t like Bluesky as the next Fediverse user, especially as they’ve went out of there way to create a protocol that’s unsecure and a platform that is semi-centralised but people are learning about alternatives like us from them what is at least helpful in someway.
at least a setting stone for people to be in a slightly better place than Faceook or Twitter?
No, not really. It has already started caving to Turkish political censorship requests for example. They are implementing checkmark bullshit and from the start they required you to have an account to view all content.
but people are learning about alternatives like us
99% of bluesky users have never heard of the fediverse or anything like that. They just blindly follow the herd to the next platform like always. In a few years bluesky will turn to complete shit and then they will once again jump to the next garbage platform.
Tbh never heard about the censorship, is this a new development.
Also I thought the point of them using domains was no checkmarks lol I’m not a complete fan when it comes to the way they done usernames but it’s a cool concept but yeah that’s kinda bullshit.
It’s better in some ways for now. All commercial social media platforms start out by being less bad than the competition. That’s how they attract users. When they have enough of a user base for network effects to take hold, that’s when they enshittify.
A bridge is the first step in the “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” pattern. A Fediverse only works when no one node can dominate all the others. It’s why, even though Meta’s Threads platform was/is actually Federated (in that it uses ActivityPub), everyone defederated from them because it’s a poison pill for the whole network.
Okay, but is bluesky at least a setting stone for people to be in a slightly better place than Faceook or Twitter? I don’t like Bluesky as the next Fediverse user, especially as they’ve went out of there way to create a protocol that’s unsecure and a platform that is semi-centralised but people are learning about alternatives like us from them what is at least helpful in someway.
No, not really. It has already started caving to Turkish political censorship requests for example. They are implementing checkmark bullshit and from the start they required you to have an account to view all content.
99% of bluesky users have never heard of the fediverse or anything like that. They just blindly follow the herd to the next platform like always. In a few years bluesky will turn to complete shit and then they will once again jump to the next garbage platform.
They’ve already started heading that direction step by step
Tbh never heard about the censorship, is this a new development.
Also I thought the point of them using domains was no checkmarks lol I’m not a complete fan when it comes to the way they done usernames but it’s a cool concept but yeah that’s kinda bullshit.
It’s better in some ways for now. All commercial social media platforms start out by being less bad than the competition. That’s how they attract users. When they have enough of a user base for network effects to take hold, that’s when they enshittify.
A bridge is the first step in the “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” pattern. A Fediverse only works when no one node can dominate all the others. It’s why, even though Meta’s Threads platform was/is actually Federated (in that it uses ActivityPub), everyone defederated from them because it’s a poison pill for the whole network.
For more info on how that eventually happens, this article gives some past examples.