Riley Testut May 8, 2023

It sucks reading all the Mastodon vs Bluesky takes because the whole *point* of decentralized social media was that it didn’t have to be a zero-sum game. Yes Mastodon is more nerdy and yes Bluesky is more “normal”, but if they all used ActivityPub then everyone could win!

But instead of contributing to the open social web, Bluesky decided to fork the ecosystem with their own proprietary protocol :/ And now we’re headed for the same siloed world as before

Show threadRiley Testut 
It’s like if Adobe introduced Flash *after* we standardized HTML5, and justified it by saying “it makes playing online games easier,” and everyone jumped on board for that one reason
May 8, 2023 at 3:58pmIvory for iOS
Show threadelle mundyMay 8, 2023
@rileytestut to be fair, it took apple, the largest company in human history, pushing html5 and banning flash from its massively popular closed OS with its own exclusive browser engine, to kill off flash
Show threadSiguzaMay 8, 2023
@rileytestut it all starts to make a lot more sense when you consider large groups of people being dragged there by "influencers" who want an algorithm to game, and who want to monetise social media.