Mastodawn

My thoughts on Jay stepping out as CEO of the #bluesky company and a VC-backed CEO taking her place during the interim are that those two realities currently coexist:

The #atmosphere is not power-decentralized enough (as in the Bluesky company still has too much power)

Bluesky has an excellent track record on helping build the non-bsky atmosphere and delivering on their promises to ship stuff that diverts power away from the company and into other individuals and organizations

If 2. continues, 1. will eventually not be true anymore and the atmosphere would survive a "VC money ran out so Bsky is now milking their users dry"-type enshittification

Of course the #fediverse has none of those power dynamics problem but we don't see most replies to a toot or have an account migration flow that doesn't suck so choose your poison I guess 💀

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ikuturso 🇪🇺

@res260 We do see all the replies to a toot ever since #FetchAllReplies got merged.

I think this CEO change has a pretty high likelihood of being connected to current funding running out and this new CEO being there to try raise another round of funds, do monetization and with the decline in usage metrics also some typo of pivot. Possibly towards growth at the expense of the protocol focus that is less likely to pay off short-term. May already have seen that with weird features like cashtags.

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Émilio Gonzalez Mar 10

@ikuturso I heard about it being merged a while ago but this does not work reliably for me so I don't consider this as something solved yet

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ikuturso 🇪🇺Mar 10

@res260 it's been very reliable for me and live for a pretty long time now.

If you're not seeing all replies there could always all sorts of unrelated issues like a specific instance not working properly, there being blocks in place by users or instances that prevent replies from appearing etc.

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Émilio Gonzalez Mar 10

@ikuturso huh, weird. Maybe it's a Phanpy thing?