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Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All (slate.com)

submitted 1 week ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (9 children)

It's the hot new non-billionaire controlled social media app for the 2020s: https://bsky.app/

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Non-billionaire controlled so far. It's a public benefit corporation, which is vulnerable to being Altmaned. Once it becomes valuable money will find a way.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That's where the federated angle comes in. Not quite there yet, but as the network grows the vulnerability to the original node getting taken over by a bad actor lessens.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

A feature that makes it easier for their users to migrate to a competitor? Blockchain Capital invests $15M in BlueSky. Insert that Anakin / Padme meme:

Anakin: Now that we've invested, let's make that federation feature priority 0
Padme: As in highest priority, right?
Anakin:
Padme: As in highest priority, right?

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