Matt BlazeMy decision about whether to try Bluesky depends on what everyone else does. I just want to be where everyone else is, and not be around too many Nazis. My needs are simple.
What I *don't* want is 10 zillion social media du jour accounts.
PJ "Vote Green" CoffeyI think it depends on why you're on SocMed.
For good, thoughtful conversation outside of your normal bubble, this is excellent.
For supporting yourself as an artist/creative, it is less good in terms of numbers, and because of hostility as opposed to support from randoms.
For maintaining a career in the public eye? Terrible, you earn the enmity of the media by being here, free from ads and popularity algorithms.
Everyone has to choose their own path.
And if Bluesky uses ads it will tolerate as many Nazis and bots as legally possible because that's the job of corporations.
I lay out an analysis of the economic drivers here:
https://mastodon.ie/@Homebrewandhacking/110270420198121286
My tolerance for such is zero but again these things vary.
PJ Coffey (@[email protected])
I've been reading and listening to stuff about how social media works. Axiom 1: Services must be paid for == There's no such thing as a free launch. Axiom 2: For profits always want more money. From 1, we know that some shrug their shoulders about surveillance capitalism and accept that ads pay for things. From 2, we know that more eyeballs on ads = more money, therefore more people = money = good 1/T #SocialMedia #Bluesky #AttentionEconomy #Bots #Fascism #SurveillanceCapitalism
Joost@Homebrewandhacking @mattblaze "For good, thoughtful conversation outside of your normal bubble"
Honestly, i feel like this is only half true, at least for me.
I see a lot of good, thoughtful conversation on Mastodon, and it’s blissfully free from disruption by trolls or haters. But it actually feels quite a lot like being inside a bubble, at least politically: the cultural, ideological and geographical horizon seems fairly narrow.
@Homebrewandhacking @mattblaze I see plenty of good, thoughtful conversation on Twitter too, even now still (a question of following the right people). But it comes with pretty continuous disruption by trolling and hostility in comments from randos. On the flip side, the cultural-political-geographical horizon seems wider, as does the range of subjects that gets a critical mass of posts or knowledgeable users.