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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] 26 points 1 month ago

It isn't. It's just the shiny new toy that twitter users who are desperate to leave the platform jumped to because everyone they know who already jumped ship moved there. They're marketing themselves as "better" than twitter and supposedly have better guardrails, but only time will tell when they start to enshittify.