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If you/we/other folk want it to be a thing, shouldn't we at least try to not frame it as a 'dead in the water' piece of tech? Seeing how HN has a way of planti
by dleeftink 3y ago
If you/we/other folk want it to be a thing, shouldn't we at least try to not frame it as a 'dead in the water' piece of tech?
Seeing how HN has a way of planting seeds in the minds of potential early adoptors, framing it as DOA may be the self-fulfilling prophecy we want to avoid if we want changes to unfold within our heavily centralised social media sphere.
- jsnell 3y agoMost people on HN don't have any vested interest in the success or failure of BlueSky. That's a good thing. It means we can actually give our honest opinions rather than equivocate in order to prop up a dead project in a kind of virtual recreation of Weekend at Bernie's. Honestly, even without Threads I would not bet on BlueSky to be the winner in this space or even to be viable. The team got really lucky having the right product at the right time, and failed completely to capitalize on it. Or actually worse, they seemed to not even try to capitalize on it. Even trying and failing would have been bette.r