1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
The people who aided Dorsey in pursuing this vision were other libertarian/post-rationalists connected with effective altruism and other online anarchist movements.
The internet is better with multiple services, multiple of many things. That’s how there is cooperation, compatibility and development for the better.
bluesky doesn’t help with this; all social media platforms financed by investors are going to enshitify no matter how much they say they won’t at the beginning. (reddit also said that they wouldn’t the the beginning too).
the inventors behind stories like bluesky and reddit are the same ones that are reducing the your choice of multiple services on multiple things because they have an incentive to kill progress when it’s competition that can challenge their profits and enshitify to squeeze out every last dollar before abandoning it themselves.
bluesky doesn’t help with this; all social media platforms financed by investors are going to enshitify no matter how much they say they won’t at the beginning. (reddit also said that they wouldn’t the the beginning too).
the inventors behind stories like bluesky and reddit are the same ones that are reducing the your choice of multiple services on multiple things because they have an incentive to kill progress when it’s competition that can challenge their profits and enshitify to squeeze out every last dollar before abandoning it themselves.