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How is BlueSky any different from other major social media platforms? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/outoftheloop

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So I thought that BlueSky was set up just like Lemmy in that it was fully decentralized into a sort of "terrorist cell" structure that wasn't focused on profits, but then found out that BlueSky has a CEO. Since this is a business, what makes BlueSky fundamentally different from Twitter or Instagram?

I feel like so long as a social media platform exists through monetization (in some form or another private companies need to make money), we are ultimately replacing one dictator with another.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're getting ready to release a subscription service.

[–] DomeGuy 2 points 1 month ago

Social media servers cost money. There are only three options.

1: (Lemmy, bsky now) - someone runs it for their own private reasons and users bemefit as side effect or charity.

2: (Twitter, facebook, reddit) - someone runs it as marketing, and sells user eyeballs or data.

3: (some MMOs, bsky future) - someone runs it and sells users things to keep it running.

Baky says they want to keep the current experience free, and are contemplating a freemium add-on subscription. Maybe they'll stick to this and maybe they wont, but "they sell subs" isnt guaranteed enshittification they way that an IPO and ads are.