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Dan Gillmor Apr 30, 2023

@mmasnick done by far the best job of chronicling the Twitter/Musk follies and the resulting social media diaspora. His 6-months-later piece, on where we stand in what I hope will be a massive move to decentralized networking, is a must-read: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/28/six-months-in-thoughts-on-the-current-post-twitter-diaspora-options/

Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

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Max Kennerly Apr 30, 2023

@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.

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Noah Cook

@maxkennerly @dangillmor @mmasnick In fairness, the very nature of difficult problems is such that you're realistically not going to want to devote more than 10-20% of your resources to them. You need to put 80-90% of your resources where they're needed and useful.

I'm witholding judgement on Blue Sky for now. My experience in policy and programming has been that implementation is where the Real World gets to exercise its veto over the best laid plans of mice and men.