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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is reshaping social media, but advertising isn't off the table (techcrunch.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (24 children)

They literally owe money to *checks notes... Blockchain Capital. A bunch of fucking cryptobros venture capital firm.

Enshittification is coming, people are stupid for falling for this again. I'm sick of fucking hearing about how all-volunteer created & funded Mastodon isn't as slick as the fucking venture capital funded Bluesky. "It's too hard to use!" Wah, go cry about it into a corporate teat some more, sucker.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

UX is always going to be the number one priority for a SoMe, when people have to pick one. People are not suckers for wanting proper solutions. FOSS projects need to prioritise this much higher that many of them do, otherwise they will never crawl out of the shadows and in to the light and forever stay with the nerds willing to accept an inferior UX.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

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[–] Sylaran 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, no one is expecting bluesky to avoid succumbing to enshittification. People will just jump ship to a new social media platform as they always have. Mastodon has been around for a long time at this point, but people jump to Mastodon, find it confusing, and leave for something easier to use

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People will just jump ship to a new social media platform as they always have.

That isn't how this works. Nobody's jumped ship from Facebook despite all the myriad complaints people have had about it for over a decade now.

The only reason why people are moving to BS is because Musk helped a wannabe dictator get elected. In the USA. That's pretty extreme, and if BS didn't exist, they would still be on Twitter.