I recently finished the episode of The Verge's podcast #Decoder with the interview to Bluesky's CEO and it seems a quite interesting project. At the beginning I wasn't looking really into it because of their choice of using a new protocol instead of the existing ActivityPub, but after listening to her and the reasons behind this choice maybe I'll give them a chance.

What do you think? Do you use it alongside with the fediverse?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Even if the corporate is a public benefit corporation with open source foss code both for server and client?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

public benefit corporation

They're still for profit and corporate leadership and values can change. I wouldn't trust it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ya isn't OpenAI a public benefit corporation that has been gradually losing its values and becoming more corporate?

[–] Plopp 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yup. PBC is just a slightly different flavor of a standard corporation. Bluesky have investors, they're burning investor money right now, they don't know how to monetize the platform yet, and when those investors come knocking for their ROI it's the same ol enshittification process all over again. No thanks. I don't care if the backend is FOSS as long as it all revolves around a corporation, especially one with the roots of Bluesky. If there grows a viable and open community and ecosystem out of that, completely self-sustaining without the need for the corporation, using the FOSS code (or perhaps preferably a fork of it), then that's a different story and that could be interesting.

[–] CaptainSpaceman 5 points 8 months ago

Its not FOSS anyways, its Source Available

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

That's how OpenAI used to describe themselves, too.