Bluesky now has 30 million users.

[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.

[thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world]

No clue. Never found those platforms to be useful, just toxic.

[gluca23@lemmy.world]

They have an addiction to that kind of socials.

[jhex@lemmy.world]

Same here... even when Twitter was not even in the sights of fElon I found it to be super toxic. I signed up because "it was the best way to get the news" and left in about 4 days

[uniformly9@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Because it isn't just Twitter.
Nobody can buy the network, the same way nobody can buy email.

• Anyone can host a server.
• Anyone can make an app.
• Anyone can make an algorithm.
• Anyone can make a moderation service.
  Users can freely pick a server, app, algorithm, and moderation service.

[deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Decentralized FOSS socials are great technical achievements but I feel like the actual product that users will interact with are worse copy cats of already established social platforms. Mastodon is a Twitter clone, Lemmy is a reddit clone, peertube is a youtube clone. I love these FOSS/decen. platforms but the frontend that users actually interact with are just copies of already popular platforms, just with another backend. What innovative FOSS/decen. social platforms exist? Not talking about the backend but the user experience.