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.
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.
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
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.
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?!
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.
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
It’s all shite. ALL of it. Time to unplug and go outside.
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.
People aren’t thinking that critically. Maybe they need to experience the cycle a couple more times.
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.
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
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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.
The issue is size
If it was federated the same problems would arise, see lemmy
There needs to be user caps
If it does, a new alternative will pop up, no biggie