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I find myself uninterested in Bluesky, because other than the fact that it is an invite-only system which restricts network effects, Jack Dorsey is there. Jack
by Sunspark 3y ago
I find myself uninterested in Bluesky, because other than the fact that it is an invite-only system which restricts network effects, Jack Dorsey is there.
Jack Dorsey mis-managed Twitter for years and has not uttered one public peep against Musk, which means that he either agrees with Musk making him a page in the same book, or the other conclusion, that he remains the same bad manager he always was, and will run Bluesky the way he ran Twitter or how X is run today.
Mastodon has its own separate issues such as the dependence on capricious and potentially volatile server operators who aren't bound by corporate standards of accountability. I have never created a Mastodon or Bluesky account. I still have a Twitter/X account and do not feel the need to delete it. I am not a heavy user of X, I do find it of value.
I was singularly unimpressed a few weeks ago when I went looking on Mastodon to view the feed of someone who writes about technology and only technology.. but there was nothing.. I was mystified.. the Mastodon server was reporting that the account was "suspended". So, unless that's the error message returned by a user shutting down their account themselves, the operator strikes again for whatever petty political reason they may have conjured up.
Neither Mastodon nor Bluesky are worth investing time in.
- Pseudomanifold 3y agoI agree with this sorry state of affairs; it does not seem that there is a proper successor to X at the moment.
- Karrot_Kream 3y agoDorsey is barely involved with Bluesky. I think he's more interested in Nostr these days. He's not managing anything Bluesky related. I find the community on Bluesky to be a lot less strident than Mastodon (someone called this to "shitposter to scolder" ratio which leans much higher to "scolder" on Mastodon) but agree that it is a lot emptier than X and has a lot less going on with many fewer niches.