Buelldozer

The article body originally had it in all caps and once I noticed that I rewrote my comment that way. The article now shows it as “Bluesky” (no capital S) which is apparently the correct way. I dunno wtf is going on.

Yep.

The main problem with BLUESKY is that it’s the same regurgitated shit you find everywhere else. As a brand new user here’s the first 10 things in my feed:

1. Someone trying and failing to make a clever joke about the US Presidential election.
2. A picture of black hole (which is great!)
3. Semi-clever joke involving Professor X and Alvin and the Chipmunks
4. Self Described “transfem lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. I mean yikes it’s creepy AF.
5. Boring US Political schlock about Lauren Boebert.
6. Science / Astronomy content
7. Video Game Post
8. Self Described “#1 Gayest Lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. A copypasta of the other and still creepy AF.
9. Another eye-roller “I am soooo depressed” meme.
10. Boring US Political schlock defending Dr. Fauchi

So BLUESKY seems to be Twitter v2, primarily inhabited by the Pre-Elon Blue CheckMark types. Can I “fix” that with filtering? Probably but if I do then the feed will slow down so much that even checking in once per day will probably be too often.

You don’t, which why (aside from cost) nations don’t use them as toys.

Mastodon and open platforms will eventually win out in a divided social media ecosystem anyway, in my opinion.

No they won’t, Reddit killed Internet Forums, Threads has over 200 million active monthly users, and BlueSky already has double the number of users of Mastadon and is adding 10 new ones PER SECOND . Mastadon will be entirely irrelevant by the end of Q1 2025.

What we’re watching right now is the exact same fight that the chat platforms had back in the early 2000s. AOL chat vs IRC vs Yahoo Chat vs Microsoft Messenger. That was temporarily addressed by using multi-service clients like Trillian…and then Facebook rolled in and squashed them all. BTW there are several multi-platform clients out there right now that will allow you to interact with Xitter, Threads, BlueSky, and Mastadon simultaneously just like the Trillian of old.

I’ve been around the Internet since the BBS days and I can’t think of a single time where a de-centralized platform has out competed a centralized platform with “normal” users.

Make sure to actually understand how those “non-profit” websites and services are functioning.

Generally speaking if you aren’t the customer then you are the product. Individual Lemmy and Mastadon instances are getting around this for now because they are small enough that their operational costs can be covered by the ideologically motivated instance admins and users. If Lemmy or Mastadon ever gains wide popularity this will change.