Bluesky now has 30 million users.

[jhex@lemmy.world]

why are people frothing over Bluesky? this is just Twitter but owned by a different oligarch

[archrecord@lemm.ee]

It actually does exist, at least on Mastodon, but is still very janky (e.g. old posts aren't moved over due to "technical limitations")

Automatically makes people unfollow your old account and re-follow your new account, then makes your old instance's link redirect to your new instance's one.

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

Time for the fediverse to reflect on this lamentable failure to capture the zeitgeist

We haven't failed, the wise ones among us understand companies like bluesky grow cancerously, and that cancerous growth is neither desirable nor emulatable (especially in pace) in a healthy system.

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

Maybe the argument is that it "will be", but at the moment it is not

Hey, I have a couch you should buy, it isn't comfy right now but me a random human promises you on my word that after you buy it one day I will come back and fix it up so it is the comfiest couch ever!

Also maybe like somebody could make a non-profit to add features my business sold customers on with marketing hype!

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

It is the path of least resistance because it just goes in circles

[freebee@sh.itjust.works]

Because they learned nothing

[ramenjunkie@midwest.social]

Its also, honestly, just really hard to find people on Mastodon.

[fedizen@lemmy.world]

Until there's overt advertising its unlikely to enshittify the normal way. That doesn't mean it won't, just that a different capital process is at work. Wikipedia has outlived most of "web2.0" because of its funding model.

[mio@feddit.nu]

Good with some competition. We need much more in that area.

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

then the Bluesky exodus will really have a solid reason to try to understand why decentralisation is so important...

or people will have lost the ability to imagine alternative and better places...

...which is where we come in to make sure they don't forget!

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

Until there's overt advertising its unlikely to enshittify the normal way.

Trust me we will be deep into that territory so fast it is going to make your head spin.

Wikipedia has outlived most of "web2.0" because its funded by donations and run by volunteers.

Private equity and VC funding can't directly buy Wikipedia and dissect it because it is an at least somewhat functional non-profit organization. That is the only reason.

[laluzdelsol@lemmy.world]

I only use bluesky to follow a couple of ukraine war news accounts. It's very good for that purpose. I don't interact at all or read comments, twitter was always an absolute cesspool and I assume bkuesky is as well, or will be if it ever replaces twitter

[fedizen@lemmy.world]

What would a comparable example be?

[spezi@feddit.org]

Yeah, why would I use BlueSky when I could just use my favorite platform named Threads?

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
Just kidding
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[interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml]

10s of millions if twitter refugees and how many came here?

It could very well be another decade before these people are sold out again.

[bizza@lemmy.zip]

Ah yes, "free our feeds" where millionaire VCs are asking for donations

[markalalvarez@lemmy.world]

I don’t think it will go down the same path as Twitter, since Bluesky is open source and available on Github other devs will have the possibility to improve it or create a better version of it but with the more users joining it might necessary to monetize it to better cover the costs. I would love to see everyone switching to the Fediverse but it’s not very intuitive for the average end user with the instances and the fact that you need to target a user and an instance to follow it

[bizza@lemmy.zip]

And that's the kicker. Bluesky can never be meaningfully decentralized.

[bizza@lemmy.zip]

The masses will either eventually migrate to ActivityPub, or have their entire digital lives consumed by oligarchs. It's just a fight between finally deciding that maybe ease-of-use doesn't mean "good," and losing every ounce of your identity and ability to express your thoughts and feelings.

[arc@lemm.ee]

Maybe it will, but for the time being it hasn't. The experience is so vastly better than Twitter, that it's a no brainer to jump over.