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.

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Show threadSteve

@chargrille
I haven't tried Bluesky, and given that Post beat it to market by months and is a desert, my guess is that Bluesky is not going to dominate the post-Twitter world.

Twitter _was_ the dominant microblogging site. It's dying. What will replace it? How about nothing? Isn't it plausible that the death of the Sick Bird will be the death of microblogging?

Obviously Mastodon will remain, both in the Fediverse and as the software of unfederated wannabe Twitter replacements. But it doesn't appear to be on a path to replace Twitter as the common space for all the things that made Twitter popular.

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Jul 3, 2023 at 5:37amWeb
Show threadSteveJul 3, 2023

@chargrille
So I think it's unnecessary to cheer for Bluesky to fail. It's trying to replace a service that is dying. Twitter users, whether they're staying to the end or already out, mostly don't _want_ a replacement. They want Twitter the way it was, and they know that's gone forever.

That said, I don't think it's appropriate to denounce Dorsey like that. He ran Twitter as a business, but with a lot of consideration for its value as a public service. It was responsibly managed, for the most part.

Sure, Dorsey is not all good, and he has some financial (and probably sentimental) interests in his old company. But he's not a monster like Space Gollum.

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