Jack promoting RFK Jr. on Bluesky demonstrates that Bluesky intends to best Twitter in key time-to-enshitification metric.
@MissingThePt Which is another reason why I'm here on Mastodon.

@BCMetisMan @MissingThePt Dorsey, Musk, Theil. These guys see themselves as having “taken the red pill” when they’re really just high on their own supply.

As for RFK Jr, he’s an absolute degenerate:

@MissingThePt I just realized Jack and junior are pretty much the same guy.
@MissingThePt Enshitification?! Yeah, I'm keeping that one! 🤣
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@JamesDBartlett3 @MissingThePt @pluralistic Oh, ok! I've seen this happen soooo many times!
@MissingThePt I‘m not on Bluesky, what did he skeet? You know, he is not the CEO there, just a board member.
@frumble @MissingThePt lol, obviously Jack has no influence then

@MissingThePt

Been out of the loop for awhile so forgive me for doubting that "enshitification" is a real word in use today. 😎

@TopKnot @MissingThePt I think @pluralistic has used it first in his book and it is very descriptive of what is going on.
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Enshittification is when an online platform becomes more monetized and less user-oriented the longer it lasts. The term was theorized by Canadian writer an

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@MissingThePt Ridiculous. There will never be a social network that contains no users or content that bother you. But there doesn't need to be--the platform just needs to give you control over what gets surfaced to you, and they are doing exactly that.

You're judging a platform because of one user, promoting one [admittedly stupid/dangerous] person, one time. You wouldn't even see that post without following someone who surfaced to you or going looking for it. Cynical, unfair, and irrational.

@dkh @MissingThePt

s/one-user/The-Owner-CEO-Person-who-defines-what-content-gets-surfaced-by-default

@dkh @MissingThePt

Tracking what/who Jack promotes on a platform he started/backed seems like a rational and fair form of situational awareness to me.
And its not only that the named person is admittedly stupid/dangerous but the damage this kind of
propaganda/promotion can do.
It's not about "the thing that bothers you" It's about the propaganda/advertising/boosting/promotion to a large audience of that person and what surrounds him.

@knowattitude @MissingThePt Yes, I was admittedly downplaying jack a bit. But he isn't CEO, isn't involved day-to-day, and doesn't even post that much. Regardless I still don't think you can call time of death on an entire platform that honestly has been going really well and has been a remarkably positive experience for most so far. I didn't see his posts about this. Just don't give up on the entire project/community because of one thing jack did is all
@dkh oh, you're one of those chuds who mistake content filtering for moderation.
@MissingThePt As they're in private beta I think it's time to coin a new term: preshitification.
@MissingThePt Jack already screwed us once and pocketed billions, no doubt. Why would I trust him and join anything he's promoting? He'll just do it all again. I mean, ELON MUSK is involved with Bluesky, as well. Who are they kidding?

@MissingThePt

Not interested in a captain who abandoned his own ship ⛵️ #Bluesky #Twitter #socialmedia

@sdlizlifestyle @MissingThePt jack is nowhere near “captain,” he has one board seat that’s outnumbered by the others and his shares are only for advising and carry no real power. he’s mostly using nostr these days. the actual head of bluesky is a woman named jay graber.
@MikeBeas @MissingThePt i was referringgg to Twitter, actuaLLy.
@sdlizlifestyle @MissingThePt right but you said you're not interested in bluesky because jack abandoned twitter. jack has basically nothing to do with bluesky.
@MikeBeas @MissingThePt isnt he helping to launch it? (as a traitor, proLLy, like how can anyone trust his commitment? I understand as a board of… in #capitalism, u can have ur life’s work taken away, but u don’t have to fuLL-on abandon ship n thats what Jack appears to do, if not any CEO wit da most shares)))
@sdlizlifestyle @MissingThePt jack's only involvement is that he gave them $13 million of twitter's money several years ago and he now has one board seat with basically no influence. he has no controlling stake and the shares he was given for advising do not give him any level of control. the CEO of Bluesky is Jay Garber.
@sdlizlifestyle @MissingThePt Jack actually seems to prefer the “nostr" protocol, which looks terrible. he's not on bluesky that often.
@MikeBeas @MissingThePt proLLy too occupied with cash app n square 🟨 /bloc 🫥

@MissingThePt

I never knew about this. Crikey, doesn't bode well.

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You found the point!
@MissingThePt It's interesting to see the #enshitification hashtag as an evolution of the #dotcons hashtag. The first is capture and then dispole the second is capture and then profit. One is about capitalism, the other is some liberal whitewash that #mainstreaming people can say.