EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky

[aqua@lemmy.vg]

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[lazycog@sopuli.xyz]

This is good. I know Mastodon would be better, but right now I'm just happy that public agencies are moving away from that far-right platform owned by a fascist asshole who gained global political power because of money...

[gi1242@lemmy.world]

out of the frying pan, into the fire

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

Baby steps, bud

[asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev]

I wonder if Bluesky will also be like that someday.

[stoy@lemmy.zip]

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good

[unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de]

Its impossible for it to not go to shit. The only way to prevent this is proper federation/account migration, because with those any server will just instantly die from users leaving when they start going bad. Lock-in is the biggest reason for everything wrong with the internet.

[asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev]

I believe the main instance already got most of the people who would want to use Bluesky, in it.
And even if people did start self hosting their own servers, I am not sure if they could handle the traffic.

[skua@kbin.earth]

Some day? Probably. But if it isn't for now, I'll take it as an improvement for now

[lazycog@sopuli.xyz]

Exactly. It's not perfect, but it's an improvement. They might have said something equally bad like "we are moving to facebook".

We need visibility to such institutions because younger generation is not interested in parsing a website for information and news (this is a sad fact) but rather parse social media.

I think enshittification of "traditional" software already gave enough initial visibility for fediverse and the word "decentralization" that when bluesky goes to shit it's already less of a new thing to move to - let's say - mastodon hosted by EU or whatever.

[thegrandnagus@lemmy.world]

This is my biggest issue with discourse on here or Reddit. If something isn't literally perfect it's treated as being absolutely horrible.

I'll take minor improvements here and there over sticking to something awful and endlessly complaining about it.

[gedaliyah@lemmy.world]

Too Bad it wasn't Mastodon. They just chose a different corporate master

[tabular@lemmy.world]

The distance between 'seeking perfection' and 'lowering personal standards' can be far. Let's make sure one isn't leaving an abusive relationship for another one.

[cosmicturtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The level of effort to move to mastodon is not that much more than moving the bluesky. I agree not letting perfect be the enemy of good but this is a situation where they could have done something substantially better with only slightly more effort.

Am I glad they left Twitter? Sure.

Is there anything wrong with bluesky? Not right now.

Even if they moved to a managed mastodon instance, it would have been better.

[robotzap10000@feddit.nl]

Swapping Twiddle-Dum with Twiddle-Dumber

[slopppyengineer@lemmy.world]

Yes. Once a large enough concentration of users is achieved, the network effect kicks in and the users are locked in.

With that amount of users, it becomes a juicy target for businesses who colonize the place to milk said users. That's assuming the original founders haven't already been kicked out and replaced by suits who just invite businesses, influencers, creators, propagandist and so on in and charge them for the privilege. That locks in businesses.

With users and business both locked in, squeeze them for an they're worth until the pain gets too big and the users leave for another platform. Go to step 1.

[yondoza@sh.itjust.works]

It surprises me that bringing the server in house especially for emergency services isn't a priority.

[squiffsquiff@lemmy.world]

Mastodon as a mass market solution has failed. It's essentially irrelevant outside of a tiny niche

[gedaliyah@lemmy.world]

What are you talking about? It has a million active users. With an advertising budget of zero.

[bitchkat@lemmy.world]

Of course it will. That's why BlueSky is just a stepping stone.