Ruth MottramMar 7
Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
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Show threadAlbert CardonaMar 7

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I'm so glad someone put this into words:

"Bluesky had a bunch of “stuff” but they’re trying to capture that 2008 Twitter lightning in a bottle which is a giant waste of time. We’re never going to go back to pretending that tweeting at politicians does anything and everyone there is desperately trying to build a “brand” as the funny one or whatever. I want news I don’t want your endless meta commentary on the news."

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> I'm so glad someone put this into words

I like these ones even better;

"There's no actual plan to self-host Bluesky. Their protocol makes it easier to scale their service. That's why it was written and that's what it does. End of story."

@matdevdug, 2026

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Exactly! Titter's motive for funding BS was like corporate participation in Open Source, it's about externalising their costs to the community not participating in a commons.

#BlueSky

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