The problem is this leads to an effect I've mentioned before: instead of dev and community efforts being invested in building good things, those efforts are spent "chasing tails". In this case, chasing yet another "standard" that won't be and where you are always going to play second-hand loser - and thus you are never goign to really "capture people".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

bsky is an upgrade from twitter, and has methods to allowe limited interoperability to the fediverse… the biggest hurdle to fediverse adoption at the moment is that you can’t leave fb/ig/twitter/etc without abandoning all your connections there with no ability to communicate cross platform. the choice to leave is dramatic… if everyone moves to bsky, that’s a far better proposition for eventual fediverse adoption because with things like bridges, the barrier to move to the fediverse is much lower - perhaps a slight inconvenience, rather than outright loss

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps, and I'm being very lenient. But still, doesn't justify US$ 30M.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

i agree, but there’s lots of waste in the world. this is just the way of things, and the best we can do is push for making things iteratively better over time - this is that… a wasteful use of money, but at least it’s pushing in the direction of open