For all the concerns about missed opportunities and the sudden boom of Bluesky, consider that there are aspects of their success story which are not envious at all in the particular historical moment in which we find ourselves. Bluesky's imprint on popular culture is now that of the place that traitorous Twitter lefties escaped to, just as Twitter's not-so-benevolent dictator becomes part of the fascist Trump regime. Bullseyes are being drawn as we speak.
Meanwhile, Bluesky remains a surveillant network with a centralized relay sited in the so-called US. The corporation will of course offer compliance with "law" enforcement requests. This would be true even before turning to the question of who has internal influence there. Some of the information circulating recently on Bluesky investors has been true and some has been bullshit; but either way, the power analysis is indisputable. At least in its current form, this is no community-controlled network.
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