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[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Bluesky is just going to turn into twitter in a few years. How does no one see the issue with one company owning a platform?!

[–] thisfro@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe bluesky might take a bit longer, but I don't see how threads is any better than twitter.

Just a different asshat running the company

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, threads was only popular because of it being fused with instagram, so you would already have an audience and because it was the simplest alternative at the time.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

You need to have a couple of explicitly anticapitalist thoughts to see the issue with it. So yeah, most won't see the issue with it.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

People aren't thinking that critically. Maybe they need to experience the cycle a couple more times.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 weeks ago

The issue is size

If it was federated the same problems would arise, see lemmy

There needs to be user caps

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While you can critisise its decentralisation, it is still in development. There is an effort (https://freeourfeeds.com/, cory doctorow supports it) to host atproto infrastructure outside of bsky's control.

[–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

it is not still in development decentralisation on bluesky is vapourware it will never exist it's just part of the standard EEE cycle it's marketing they'll say it didn't work out and cancel it the second they become the predominant platform

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

You dropped these: ,....

Punctuation aside, I find that hard to believe, they literally started out as a way to make twitter decentralised after jack dorsey got ✨inspired✨ by a paper on decentralisation. Decentralization on bluesky does exist, they got a lot of flack for banning a trans person who pointed out their head of t&s liked barely legal porn, but she just made her own pds (because bsky is open source) and is now untouchable. All it needs is account moving and to fix up did:plc a bit and it should be decent. I'd reccomend reading @cwebber@social.coop s article about it, points out its strenghts and weaknesses quite well. https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/ . I myself am annoyed at bluesky simple because I am a big fan of mastodon, but its already won.

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com -2 points 2 weeks ago

If it does, a new alternative will pop up, no biggie