Archived version, for posterity.
Take note Bluesky fans: Your “benevolent” controlling nonprofit can quickly become a for-profit if enough cash is thrown at the governing board…
Archived version, for posterity.
Take note Bluesky fans: Your “benevolent” controlling nonprofit can quickly become a for-profit if enough cash is thrown at the governing board…
The constant hate i see for bluesky on Lemmy and the seemingly irresistible urge to constantly trash it feels not only unwarranted, but also sad how bitter so many people here seek to be.
Reddit habits die hard for many.
I don’t hate it, but I’m also not going to pretend it’s the hot, new decentralized microblogging service, come to shake up the status quo. It maybe has the potential to be decentralized, but it’s not currently. It might be a “public benefit” company now, but that’s not an official or regulated classification like being a nonprofit; it’s basically just a promise, and all it would take is a simple vote to change that. All the power still rests with the main corporation, and no matter how altruistic the leadership is, history has shown that every wealthy leader has a price.
I hope it becomes what it promises it’s going to be. More decentralized services are a good thing for people. However, I don’t see it at this moment, and I don’t have any evidence that they’re making meaningful strides to become what they promise; time and inertia are not on their side.
Not a single person in the world other than turbo mega nerds like us will ever care about decentralised platforms, or even know what that means.
You might be right and in any case the new boss is better than the old boss right? Then again maybe this is just the honeymoon period which bluesky soaks up as many users as it can before the enshittification begins to start wringing profit out of the enterprise? Time will te if the hate is justified or just sour grapes.
It’s like people don’t pay attention on purpose I swear