Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
Darius's posts Post Back to profile
Darius Kazemi

I had actually forgotten that in December 2019 I was asked by The Verge to give my opinion on Jack Dorsey's Bluesky decentralization project. This is what I said at the time and, well, lol, I stand by it

theverge.com/2019/12/12/210125
6 Jan 2023 at 5:00 | Open on friend.camp
9 comments
Jeremy Kahn

@darius you got in the DeLorean and went back three years to mike drop on Dorsey's clown show

6 Jan 2023 at 5:06 | Open on dair-community.social
Cyber Yuki

@darius This reminds me... a few times before I've heard people talk about the next big thing in (insert some technology dominated by a monopoly), and they say things like "I'm creating this new project", "just wait until I finish it", and in the end they do absolutely nothing. They don't even report their advances... the momentum just dies.

I believe this is intentional. When people get organized to create something new, someone appears and says "hey, I'm doing this! Just wait until I get my first prototype done" and nobody ends up doing anything.

I believe bluesky is one of those things, aimed at stiffling innovation by creating false expectations. Only to let Twitter keep going.

@darius This reminds me... a few times before I've heard people talk about the next big thing in (insert some technology dominated by a monopoly), and they say things like "I'm creating this new project", "just wait until I finish it", and in the end they do absolutely nothing. They don't even report their advances... the momentum just dies.

6 Jan 2023 at 5:07 | Open on hackers.town
Ben Grue

@darius I personally can't get past the fact that Blue Sky is a coded phrase for Bullshit.

Just like all those "Cheese and Rice" style sayings are coded phrases for blasphemy that Christians really really wanna do.

Either Jack is aware it's bullshit... or he doesn't know what Blue Sky is.

6 Jan 2023 at 9:05 | Open on mastodon.social
Beth Anderson

@darius "Oh cool, you have a standard! We love standards! Here's our different standard!".

For ever and ever.

6 Jan 2023 at 14:52 | Open on hachyderm.io
DELETED

@darius I was just thinking about this the other day.

Bluesky is nothing more than a bid to tear down ActivityPub and cement control of social media.

6 Jan 2023 at 17:23 | Open on artisan.chat
Jeff
Alexis Madrigal
zbecker

@darius

I am one of the few people here who has never used #twitter, but I tend to stay fairly up to date when it comes to tech news and I never heard about this. I think we're all safe in ignoring bluesky...

7 Jan 2023 at 9:43 | Open on mastodon.zbecker.cc
𝕂ℕ𝔽 𝕀𝕆𝕆 ☎️

@darius this blurb about blue sky is spot on and I would have agreed at the time too @mosheroperandi

7 Jan 2023 at 11:44 | Open on sfba.social
Go Up