I can’t keep getting this whiplash where I lose all faith in humanity and then humanity goes and does something awesome and hilarious like this.
For those on Bluesky, this is a perfect example of why Bluesky will enshittify since this kind of brutal honesty towards rich people and large corporations won’t be tolerated on a coporate social network that is working to turn as big of a profit as possible.
This period of people being able to clown on powerful corporations like this will quickly come to an end as soon as investors put the pressure on Bluesky to return a profit.
You’re probably correct, but the possibility of federation does provide a safety valve. Any step in the wrong direction taken by BlueSky only makes it more likely someone will set up a new node.
BlackSky is heading full speed that way. A lot of users would like their own space regardless. The money doesn’t line up right now, but being able to port our information out means that that switch will flip sometime soon.
I can’t keep getting this whiplash where I lose all faith in humanity and then humanity goes and does something awesome and hilarious like this.
For those on Bluesky, this is a perfect example of why Bluesky will enshittify since this kind of brutal honesty towards rich people and large corporations won’t be tolerated on a coporate social network that is working to turn as big of a profit as possible.
This period of people being able to clown on powerful corporations like this will quickly come to an end as soon as investors put the pressure on Bluesky to return a profit.
You’re probably correct, but the possibility of federation does provide a safety valve. Any step in the wrong direction taken by BlueSky only makes it more likely someone will set up a new node.
BlackSky is heading full speed that way. A lot of users would like their own space regardless. The money doesn’t line up right now, but being able to port our information out means that that switch will flip sometime soon.