Erin ConroyJul 3, 2023

You should stay away from #Bluesky, not actively help Jack Dorsey make his next billion & build his power as an owner of another social media empire.

Dorsey helped fund Musk's takeover to the tune of $1 billion, making him one of Musk's top backers (after Qatar).

He owns part of Twitter.

He & Musk planned Musk's takeover at Twitter. They are collaborators, not competitors.

https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110286207887749108

>Edit to add Dave Troy's piece https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

Erin Conroy (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Dorsey will be happy with one arm of #Bluesky being used by his advisor Ali Alexander to plan the next armed Proud Boys/GOP attack on the Capitol building - and the other arm being used by you to fruitlessly bemoan SCOTUS corruption & the New Jim Crow voting restrictions, & what he & Musk undoubtedly delight, behind closed doors, in referring to as "woke nonsense." The $ & power asymmetry makes this work for the GOP. No content moderation means no pesky Congressional hearings for him & Musk.

Mastodon progressives
Show threadErin ConroyJul 3, 2023

This long-term structural issue is prob most important: https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110647446788441301

Jack's "solution" to Nazis using SM to do mob violence against their targets is "algorithm choice" which is intentionally anti-social & favors proliferation & stochastic terrorism.

Mastodon's model "shifts moderation to the source, rather than the destination" creating accountability. See https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

Jack re-invented a federating protocol to avoid ActivityPub. So #Bluesky could make a walled garden.

Erin Conroy (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images @[email protected] @[email protected] The other thing I've been trying to focus attention on, is that Jack's "solution" to abusers in social media - "algorithmic choice" - is intentionally anti-social & inherently biased towards increasing hate speech &stochastic terrorism. Mastodon's model "shifts moderation to the source, rather than the destination" creating accountability. See https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html And the reason Jack re-wrote an analog for ActivityPub protocol was so he could capture the audience.

Mastodon progressives
Show threadKaroli Jul 3, 2023
@chargrille flagging this for @shoq. Pretty sure there is hope for harmonious federation.
Show threadErin Conroy
@Karoli Thanks, I don't know shoq. Have they been covering Bluesky?
Jul 3, 2023 at 3:10amWeb
Show threadKaroli Jul 3, 2023
@chargrille he has been. And has been developing for the fediverse.
Show threadErin ConroyJul 3, 2023

@Karoli Great, I will check him out.

I don't think that 3rd party bridging between ActivityPub protocol & Jack's AT Protocol will solve for the problem of Jack using Bluesky to amass users & give platforms like Gab & Parler & Twitter access to those users for radicalization by fascists. The "algorithm choice" model is structured to allow this, in my opinion.

Show threadErin ConroyJul 3, 2023

@Karoli

Also, see image from Micah Lee's (unsatisfying, to me) recent piece on Bluesky. Users are still in a walled garden created by Dorsey reinventing the wheel with AT Protocol. The one touted BS benefit - portability - lost if you wanted to leave Bluesky's protocol universe. You can't go to the fediverse, only some future server that uses Bluesky's ATP. Journalists & others who rely on Bluesky ATP for their account, can't leave it for the nonprofit fediverse, without giving up their acct.

Show threadErin ConroyJul 3, 2023
@Karoli I'm not sure whether bridging will solve this problem. Whom should I follow on current bridging efforts?