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https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a
In other words, the enshittification is coming. Because Bluesky is backed by crypto-bro venture capital.
A lot of hay is being made about Bluesky but despite literal oligarchs taking over the country, I guess rich people dictating how our systems work is what people want because apparently Mastodon is too much to ask of individuals.
We can talk about Bluesky and how great their tech is all we want, but unless we address the elephant in the room, venture capital that wants a return on their investment, we're just spiraling the same stupid fucking drain we've been down with every social media preceding it.
Maybe Mastodon should take a moment to learn something. Everybody on Reddit is praising all the moderation capabilities of Bluesky, the ability to create block lists and starter packs. The way you can verify your user by using your own domain as a handle.
Instead of complaining about users, which is pointless, make Mastodon better. Users won’t come to Mastodon by shaming them for being stupid.
Well yeah, let's get the Mastodon devs a cool $15 million so they can hire more devs and compete. /s
You fail to understand open source. You want it better? Get fucking involved and stop asking people who are coding for free to compete with the code of an organization that has millions in dollars backing them and a team of professional developers.
Either get involved or start dumping money into the Mastodon devs patreon accounts.
Whichever you do is way more constructive than bitching about an open source program made by volunteers and comparing it to a slick corporate product with literally millions backing it and it's development. That's just sucking corporate dick by any other name.
Further, pretty sure block lists were and are available on Mastodon.
No wonder Trump won, everyone wants to suck at the teat of the rich instead of saying "we don't need you."
Do the volunteers want people to use what they make?
Because, I'll be honest, based on how people on the fediverse talk about people coming from Twitter or Reddit or wherever, I'm not convinced that they do. Rather, they just want to pat themselves on the back for being high minded developers.