Too many nudes when i tried, i couldn’t affordto use at the work, where’s, basically, the place i spend most of my day in…
As a lowly end user that just wants an online space to park in, I’m putting my trust in a platform run by strangers who I don’t know that could have all sorts of agendas, whether I’m signing up on a decentralised or centralised platform.
I know that this opinion is always going to be controversial around here because people here are very excited about and into the whole concept behind the Fediverse. But as someone that just wants a place to shit post, laugh at funny things and connect with people, it’s 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. The experience for me is the same because I’m not trying to run a server or anything.
I could be on Bluesky happily posting and then they turn bad and start removing posts for political reasons. Or I could be signed up on Feddit.org happily posting and then they turn bad and start removing posts for political reasons. In both of those cases, my only option as an end user is to abandon ship and years worth of posts and comments and go somewhere else.
I don’t personally know any admins around here. And they can talk about their ideals just like Mark Zuckerberg can talk about his. And all I can do is blindly trust that they’re on the level and aren’t going to take their masks off at a later stage. So as an end user, it really makes no difference.
I think that’s more than fair. And as long as bluesky hasn’t been enshittified you’re gonna have a nice time there so might as well. It’s more that the process of enshittification tends to hit traditional platforms eventually no matter what while over here we may have a better shot at building something long lasting. But that doesn’t mean everybody needs to be a purist.
“Free” platform run by a for-profit company: enshittifies
Everyone:
At least it’s a public benefit company. That’s very different than Twitter, Facebook, etc.
For now….
I have no idea what this means.
OP thinks that BlueSky will eventually get shitty and burn its users.
Ah OK. I couldn’t remember who the bug was supposed to represent.
“Eventually get shitty” we’re already there, have been since the beginning (of bluesky).
What’s shitty about it?
If you are old enough you remember that the these mainstream social networks come and go. OP could have started with Myspace. I remember when fb was new around 2010 it looked somethinng interesting.
This post may be related to this recent article: https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jay-graber-bluesky/
Some discussions about it were here: https://lemmy.world/post/29899842
I think they keep burning themselves on an electric stove top? No clue here either.
They keep getting burned by centralized social media and are poised to do so again with bluesky.
Oh ok it’s pretty obvious when you read it like that thank you.
I don’t care enough about my Bluesky account to be upset when I eventually delete it.
To be fair, fb always sucked, just s bit less.
IMO, Facebook was pretty great if you were a thirsty college student when it first launched.
But once that initial cohort of users started getting married, posting baby pictures, and luring grandparents to the platform, everything started getting pretty bad.
Why bother?
We rockin out here on the Threadiverse just fine.
Ew. Thread / Meta = 💩
Actually, the people who built the backbone of the Fediverse have been using the term prior to Meta’s attempt to hijack it, which as expected, failed hilariously:-P.
So now the question follows: do we allow them to define what we call ourselves, especially since they died?
I made a recent poll about use of the term as a post flair (btw PieFed has both polls and post flairs, along with many other features that Lemmy lacks), which you can participate belatedly in via a comment in the Lemmy version.
Most people both hate Threadiverse yet also demand to use it over any other term, due to us owning it before fucking Meta fucking tried to fucking steal it and thereby fucking ruin it, I guess out of stubbornness to not let them? :-D
I learned that I need to truly understand something to be able to trust it. I had to learn the same lesson with Proton.
