@dangillmor @mmasnick I know it makes me finicky, but:

1) boilerplate EULA terms
2) minimal moderation capability
3) no block feature, then rushed out block feature

Suggest to me that Bluesky really is ill-prepared to run a social network. They're going down the usual techbro path of putting 45% effort into engineering, 45% effort into looking cool for a handful of investors, 10% effort into solving known difficult problems of products like theirs.

@maxkennerly @dangillmor @mmasnick The mistake is thinking the social part is anything more than a means to another end. It's like how Facebook and Twitter are really advertising platforms pretending to be social media. I suspect BS really a shopping mall* that will promote crypto but also allow the use of regular money too but with incentives for using crypto (just like NFTs main purpose was money laundering, grifting and getting more people to buy into crypto). This inevitably gets sold as "rewarding content creators and helping small businesses" but that will get enshittified fast and is marketing spin. Anything built as an advertising/marketing platform is also innately a propaganda machine because propaganda is just marketing an ideology. None of the central social and political issues of Facebook or Twitter are being solved via BS but that's not it's intent anyway, the holy grail of advertising platforms masquerading as social media is integrating crypto and having the control that China has over the internet (except it's a gaggle of ruthlessly selfish bigoted billionaire manchildren in control).

*Shopping malls were designed to be social spaces where people congregate and shop, their primary function is obviously commercial but the hook was to make them social. Kids and seniors hung out at the mall because malls were designed to be hung out in (they're designed to function like a "third space" as a way to entice people into spending more money there). This is in contrast to strip malls, that very rarely function as third spaces as well as commercial ones.