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I'm purely here because as bad as the management here is at least its owner hasn't thrown up the nazi salute on live TV yet.

Tariffs, do not establish new supply chains or infrastructure needed to build local industry. Similarly, Bluesky Social has done little towards making it easy to decentralize (it's hopelessly complex), and have lost their minds at other techies pointing out Mastodon/ActivityPub is more decentralized

This place was a libertarian scheme to avoid having to actually moderate Twitter, and its ideological stupidity is baked into the protocol. Theyre gonna keep fleecing VCs until people realize it is hobbled on a fundamental level

They're literally doing the Homer Simpson scene, they found $20 without realizing money can be used to buy peanuts

Yeah but contrast this site with Twitter, and it’s no contest which of the 2 is the supreme hellsite. It’s not even remotely close. We can’t even post that Charlie Kirk was a bigot on Twitter without getting threats

Oh no tech start up has a business plan They just want VC money and they'll figure the rest out later

99% of the users of this site had no reason to EVER interact with the admins. But when they started attacking people, their behavior became everyone's business. Just how freaking difficult is it for tech people who unintentionally create a good thing to STAY QUIET and not ruin it?

Right it's like ohhhno I could lose ALL THIS?? Fuck I could only be so lucky

Let's not forget about reply guys--we're the oil in the machine that wrecks rich guy's dreams

It is incredibly ironic. Fediverse decentralization works but you wish it didn’t, and Bluesky decentralization doesn’t work while Bluesky developers try to pretend it does to avoid being accountable for running a centralized service.

Makes me think of this

When invites were lifted and bluemaga types moved in

Okay good that seems more sound morally

*durable, Fuck lol

I just want a public social media that I don't moderate where I can get news, make jokes, and be exposed to people I do not know. And I want it to be free of Nazis.

A tacky McMansion in the shittiest suburb filled to the brim with hippy commie squatters

So they jus wanna accelerate Thiel's agenda?

we all use this site because it's not Twitter. that's about it.

I wanted to have my cake and eat it too

We have enough crypto weirdos out there, let this be a fun place to be

it's funny how the libertarian crypto bro type goes mask off the moment people call them at all bad

yeah I remember being thoroughly uninterested in bluesky until twitter shut down, now it's the most obvious place to be

I feel like they've probably justified it to themselves as speeding up adoption of atproto and gradually shrugging off the burden of moderating a centralized host, which they only began out of necessity Like it's absolutely personal petty bullshit but this line of thought makes it easier on them

Rather than adapt and take advantage of the userbase they have, they will continue to mald and whine about the userbase they want. This is proof that the BlueSky team is composed largely of incompetent losers not cut out for social media.

You're not catching me using threads, and the only way I'll be active on mastodon is if everyone else is too

Didn't realize Bluesky was born out of whack goals like that

I appreciate getting actual news and next to no ragebait

I mean, actual best case is Jay and Co fuck off and decent management comes in, because mass migrations of the entire userbase to other ATProto services is gonna be a chaotic, expensive nightmare. But I'm trying to be realistic.

Yeah. I *think* there are parts of the ATProto system ("relay", I think?) that other services need to prop up to be fully independent from some forms of moderating decisions on bsky.social But those parts are big and likely expensive to host.

We can and will outlast this site's owner because we don't give a shit.

get mastodon and other user run sites to be less impossible to figure out

honestly im just here for some news and research jumping off points, art, and OTHER art. i realize i spend 99% of my time on twitter[spent not anymore] or bluesky looking at art or following artists or stalking my favorite tv show creators/writers/artists/etc. i honestly thing blogs are coming back

this is fascinating - i had no idea

speaking as an old time weird twitter person, I resemble this remark

I like the way you think

Ah, the Supernatural (CW) effect.

Yeah, we soon outgrew Bluesky's use in proving they have scalable technology becoming a liability as most users just want to use Bluesky as is, not follow some half-baked blueprints to build our own. Other sites doing that work are saints, but Bluesky didn't want to run a site, just write code.

It’s like, I’m a millennial, I’ve been hooked on the internet for 25 years at this point. But it’s like somewhere along the line my drug of choice went from being the pure good stuff to being laced with PCP. But I still need my fix!

Basically how Facebook took off, everyone was sick of the loud annoying MySpace pages

the primary reason for this place was fuckin doomed!! dumb motherfuckers furious at being temporarily prevented from driving a clown car straight into a brick wall that didn't even have a fake tunnel painted on it

that's hilarious I had no idea lmfao frick them tech bros

god forbid we thought there was any alternative to touching grass