WOW.
With the news that Bluesky closed a $100M Series B (!!) last April and didn't tell anyone (??) until now, it's just become far more obvious that Bluesky is inching very close to its full enshittification era.
You don't raise that kind of money unless you're ready for *massive* capture of eyeballs and ecosystem control.
I am telling you right now, Bluesky in another year or two will look very, *very* different. (And tbh, it's not that great now.)
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@jaredwhite honestly, bsky seems like it has already failed to maintain momentum. I know people who moved there from twitter, but haven't bothered to log in for months.
There's just not a lot of content to drive people. I suspect that $100M will be its swan song as a relevant platform.
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The ultimate goal of chnazis now is to buy all media. To get a firm hold over the serfs minds, a threat they need to curb. The less people being out of the propaganda channels, the less they will need to denaturalize and put into the concentration camps already under construction.
The $100m here reminds me of the boomer generation of Americans being cut off the reality by #usnazis destroying 1000s of local newspapers all around the country. IIRC it started ~2010. The vehicle for taking down the (paper) press was Alden Global Capital.
By coincidence, 2010 is year of Citizens United, Roberts Court allowing mafia and Russian money to buy elections.
IMO Bsky will soon implement the same superb "algo" now peddling the messiah crap all over the tiktok. I wish I were mistaken.
@jaredwhite “Bluesky is inching very close to its full enshittification era.”
They’ve been shit this whole time. Have some people been waiting for them to cross a certain threshold of shittiness before they acknowledged this?
@cass_m @AnachronistJohn if you can name one person who has praised jack dorsey I would be surprised.
he is not exactly widely liked.
@jaredwhite I keep saying - BlueSky is a ball sitting at the top of the same ramp Twitter rolled down and is desperate for the last nudge that makes it an outright Nazi bar.
They were never decentralized or federated and the whole corporate structure behind them is a built-in sabotage.
They're too new. They don't get to get enshittified. They were shit to start.
@danimrich @lawyersgunsnmoney we kept saying this was a necessary feature, and they kept telling us Nah, there's little reason to host the whole network, what's important is the individual user data pods.
Which seems utterly bonkers to me. Folks want on-prem and branded installations of plenty of other software. Why should a social networking app be any different?!
@jaredwhite how's this a surprise??
A social media created by the creator of twitter who is part of the venture capitalist powered silicon valley and pushed both crypto and nfts is not building bluesky for the love of the game?
Impossible i tell ya...
@jaredwhite It's easy to forget that you got 100 megadollars when you are busy
https://atproto.at/viewer?uri=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgso7vjjs2n
@jaredwhite all corporate owned social media looks like the same unusable dogshit because all corporate owned social media is the same unuseable dogshit.
there's nothing noteworthy or interesting about it.
people are just killing time on that that shit because they don't yet know they can have friendships that they own their access to, rather than friendships that elon zuckerberg owns their access to.
@jaredwhite look at their structure. bluesky has a CEO and venture investment. it's a profit-seeking corporation.
> In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Knight Foundation and True Ventures.
the value of bluesky comes from the human users and the data. they are going to squeeze every last drop of value out of the data, and that means selling it as ai training data. bluesky is not a trustworthy website, i would never make an account or post anything on there.
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