Moving to @[email protected]Oct 19, 2024

“Why don't you like BlueSky?"

Twitter taught me something. Any "For Profit" company is going to be a slave to its need for growth, its investors, and corporate greed.

BlueSky says “We don't want to be like that”. but they're also a for profit company that is going to end up a slave to their investors and their greed just like any other for profit company.

I don't feel like establishing myself there, just to have it all come apart in a few years like Twitter did. Because that's inevitable.

Show threadBenjamin / Brandt 
@xoagray I hear ya.
I recently started a BlueSky account, but am a bit underwhelmed with it. First thing I noticed was the tight limit to the amount of text you can have in a post, which I find quite bothersome since I've gotten used to Mastodon these past couple of years now. lol
It may be a decent alternative to Twitter/X... for now. However, that's not likely to last long.
Corporate-owned internet properties always end up destroyed by corporate greed and mismanagement, it seems.
Look at ICQ, for example. It originally was created by Mirabilis in Israel, was a very popular instant messaging system for a good while there... then changed hands, inevitably. AOL pretty much ran it into the ground when it owned ICQ for a while. A Russian company, mail.ru, acquired it several years ago now, but good luck getting much of the Western world to touch anything owned by Russian corporations these days. lol
Oct 21, 2024 at 10:24amWeb