Aral Balkan
Folks promoting Bluesky on the fediverse is like the three little pigs doing public relations for the big bad wolf. But, hey, clearly some folks still haven’t gotten the message that VC and billionaires are bad and that non-corporate spaces have to be protected from corporate ones. I guess something has to keep the folks who write “what went wrong/if only we’d known” articles in business. 🤷♂️ 29 comments
Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝
@antiaall3s
Anti. 🐘
@thibaultmol I suppose they are happier there, it's more convenient for them, they are tired of certain inconveniences here. @aral
Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝
@antiaall3s 
Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:
@thibaultmol @antiaall3s @aral Still, more access to Blue Sky means more of us can go post there about Mastodon. 😆 
Voltaire
@antiaall3s @aral dude idk how long it’s been since you signed up but the only reason I’m here is because it is way easier than it used to be. They’ve hugely simplified the onboarding!! 
n8chz ⒶⒺ
@aral In the days of the old good web there was a saying that the internet detects censorship as damage and routes around it. The new good web won't happen until it learns to route around monetization. Routing traffic around advertising has become quite an art form (in an arms race sort of way) but advertising is a symptom. Gotta go for the jugular and create #monetization-hostile communication systems.
Longplay Games :pc_color: 🎮
@aral It reminds me of the car dealerships that sell new enlistees ('boots') expensive cars on terrible loans. We have a stub out there just to hold the name, but we're a pro-union pro-open shop, so obviously we're not moving.
Matthew Graybosch
@aral I have a bluesky account, but I don't post there. I don't promote that account on my website. And I only give invite codes to people who have truly annoyed me.
 
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@aral maybe bots.. or botted brains? this was an earful ffs.. compare to :
Dave Winer ☕️
You could take another approach and consider that activitypub has problems that aren’t being solved, and maybe a fresh start by smart devs, which they are, might get us to a better place sooner. 
Joe
@davew @aral Perhaps; there are certainly issues with ActivityPub. But correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that the BlueSky approach to federation keeps BlueSky as the central authority. While that can simplify some issues, given previous experience with billionaire owners of social media platforms it isn't comforting.
Jiří Eischmann :fedora:
@not2b @davew @aral That's right. It's just decentralized storage. You can store your data on your server, you hold your name through the domain possession, but we (BlueSky) are ultimately in control who you connect with. 
maarten brouwers
Matthew Graybosch
Aral Balkan
@davew Smart devs, a billionaire, venture capital… hmm, where have I heard this song before? Sorry, Dave, as far as Jack goes, fool me once… 
Drew Naylor
@aral I only have one because not everyone I want to follow is on an ActivityPub instance. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't bother. That's the problem with social media.  
a goat‽
@aral Twitter people forget so quickly that Twitter always sucked, and was designed by algorithm to suck (but keep people addicted). Of course people would follow their old dopamine dealer, Jack Dorsey, to his new hideout... One of them. He made Nostr for unethical techbros and cynically made BlueSky for people trying to be progressive...  
unixjunk1e 🌵
@aral I signed up there today to hold my username, and added to my profile there to 'let me know if you want an invite code to the rest of the fediverse' :-D |
Gregory's Server
@aral Me thinks it's about convenience. Bluesky is three clicks your in. And it's about which groups switched where. People go where their bubbles moved to.