fubarxBluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down
Delusion6903That’s all the talk so far? It feels like a bad sign to me when power starts moving from the true believers to the VCs.
andybytesWhat goes up must come down… watch in the _ tech bro future_ we will be bailing out social media companies just like the airlines. Alway making a good thing bad.
They may fail but we better not be bailing them out!
Which is why “Not for profit” organisations are such a good thing. They are harder to get going but because they are not investment vehicles in the same way you don’t have CEOs installed just to maximise share value. Decisions are focused on what the company needs to perform its mission.
ChaosSpectreThe American Healthcare system fully disagrees with your statement, as they actively exploit non-profit status to avoid taxes and squeeze any “profits” into bonuses for the people at the top. They aren’t even the only industry doing this, but it all boils down to a piss poor lack of regulation and enforcement that really lets companies exploit non-profit structures.
nasi_gorengUSAmerica is just corrupt country that non-profit is just a way to avoid taxes.
Most of parts of the world won’t let non-profit to be turned that way.
UlrichIt was always going to be this way. It didn’t take long to see the signs of enshittification on BSky. They were subpoenaed for user info, they banned journalists, implemented age verification, and I left when they started adding link redirects and tracking.
They banned journalists? Who?
And I didn’t know about the redirects and tracking either. They are doing that without ads?
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And I didn’t know about the redirects and tracking either. They are doing that without ads?
Don’t take my word for it. Try it for yourself. Open any link and the link you clicked is hijacked back to a BSky domain.
Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation
This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geographic moderation labelers work, and the impact on the future of decentralised social networks.
I guess I don’t care that much at this point but I’m out as soon as I see the first ad.
Why wait? Why continue contributing value and investing in the platform? The longer you wait, the harder it becomes.
I’m easily out if they screw it up, I’m in the fediverse at least as much as there. So far, I’m OK with them and I want to see what happens with this protocol. Mastodon needs some work too.
I agree. You don’t have to convince me. I’ve been on mastodon for almost 8 years and it gets better every day.
The claimed reason for that is to highlight “referrer” links for the sites people go to from bsky.
My understanding is that if you click like www.themarysue.com the website operators would see a “feddit.org” or “lemmy.world” referer if you’re using a web browser and don’t have a defeating option enabled, but not if your browser is locked down or you use an app. The immediate redirects, however, do consistently show in the web site’s access logs.
It’s possible bsky could fuck around with this in the future, but doing so risks just sending users to a pseudo-fork like blacksky.
but doing so risks just sending users to a pseudo-fork like blacksky.
I think if there’s anything we’ve learned at this point, it’s that it’s extremely hard to get users to leave a platform they have connections on. That’s always the plan.
That’s why bsky’s pseudo-federation isn’t as big a deal as some ActivityPub boosters claim.
As I understand it, if lemmy.world shuts down or starts demanding cash my only resource would be the same as if Facebook decides I’m too critical of billionaires – start all over elsewhere with a new account. Sure, I could get close to the same experience with a different node, but I’d be a brand new account with no history. I might as well go someplace else entirely.
Bsky’s “portable user” idea fixes that. There are accounts my bsky account follows who switched to blacksky, and if they hadn’t said they’d changed I wouldn’t have noticed. The essential identity of their account shifted almost seamlessly, and they “federate” with everyone else, aside that their appview shows accounts that bsky’s ordinary moderation hides.
I don’t have any illusions about how altruistic the cryptobro VC’s are. But the entirely of their value proposition is that “leaving bsky” should be about as painless as porting your number from Verizon to AT&T.
𝄞 Inkstain (they/them)𓆩 𓆪What? You tell me I could have actually moved all my comments, votes, saves and posting history from my old lemmy.world account to my new one?
Lemmy and PieFed are not analogous to BlueSky. That would be more Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, etc. So, in just about every other case, yes.
I couldn’t do that when I moved Mastodon instances, I could only set up a notice that was little more than a built-in “Moved to x” pinned post
Don’t know about the other ones though, I have to say that
I guess you’re right, followers will automatically unfollow the old account and follow the new one too
Nothing will be moved.
Source: My old Mastodon account; The Mastodon docs (mastodocs for short)
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