Wow, look! A new place that controls critical flow of information, managed by for profit venture capital! How Wholesome😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
No shit? It’s run by ex-Twitter people, and Musk has brought a flamethrower to TwitterX.
Don’t kid yourself–it will eventually become more like Twitter once the entire planet onboards. Decentralization will help a lot, though.
bluesky isn’t decentralized and never will be. the only reason they would ever consider federating with other servers would be for the purpose of cannibalizing them. they are a for-profit company and as all for-profit companies have done in the past (XMPP) and are doing today (email), the goal is always to kill competition through forced lockouts.
I mean old, un-Musked Twitter was what people wanted. Mastodon is similar, and I like it but it’s not Twitter (which personally I couldn’t get into even in its heyday).
The way Mastodon is broken up into little communities such that it’s hard for anything to go viral and you can’t easily search for everything being said about a topic kills a lot of the value of old-twitter. Comes from Mastodon having been created as a twitter alternative with a different philosophy back in the old twitter days, while bluesky is more a reaction to Musk twitter used by people who didn’t have a problem with the old version.
…that’s a good thing?
Yeah X is a big downgrade
Both are shit. The difference is the flavor.
