Ancestors

Written by flamingos-cant on 2024-11-02 at 14:13

Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Cory Doctorow

https://feddit.uk/post/19449926

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Toot

Written by Cris on 2024-11-02 at 15:07

Did something specific already happen with Bluesky, or are people just expecting it because VC vultures now have their claws in it?

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Descendants

Written by poVoq on 2024-11-02 at 16:15

The entire protocol design of BlueSky reeks of bait&switch, but yes right now it is mainly the intensified expectation that it will happen sooner or later.

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Written by Cris on 2024-11-03 at 03:34

Gotcha. Yeah I choose to use Mastodon, I’d much rather support the open community built option than the option built by a company with a profit motive, I just try to stay in the loop about stuff

Thanks for the answer :)

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Written by Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world on 2024-11-02 at 18:57

No, but the whole point of Doctorow’s Enshittification essay is that it inevitably will. In the same way animals keep evolving into crabs, social media companies will keep turning into shit because the market incentives push them that way.

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Written by friend_of_satan@lemmy.world on 2024-11-03 at 02:11

But here’s the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they’d never sell out. I know those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.

They did care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the worsening of their services as the lesser of two evils.

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