alt Hacker NewsI don’t understand the infatuation with blue sky. The minute they need money it’ll go the way of the Reddit and twitter.
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People want the old Twitter, and Bluesky is close to that. It also cosplays being decentralized to people who don’t look too closely.
People seem to lark on and on about how it has better "default moderation" than Mastodon.
Twitter was always... not great (there's a reason it was affectionately known as the Hellsite), but it had 16 years of being _tolerable_ for most people (the real exodus only really started with Musk's changes, though there had been a couple of smaller ones previously, mostly over Twitter messing with the API).
Frankly, if I get 16 years out of Bluesky before having to move onto the next one, I can live with that. Social networks _die_; it has always been so. USENET, livejournal, Tumblr, twitter... nothing lasts forever.
My bluesky feed is somehow even more abhorrent than my twitter one, except that instead of right wing hate it's Facebook memes about "reading banned books"
If everything good is assumed to eventually become bad, why not use things while they are good and then immediately move on when it becomes bad?