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[–] moe90@feddit.nl -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

tbh Bluesky also a nice alternative as well.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 7 hours ago

You mean Future-X?

[–] Nadru@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bluesky is at risk to be bought by another Musk in the future

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

how many twitters can one man sell to an elmo?

[–] Nadru@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

We'll have to wait and see, at least one for now ;)

[–] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

BlueSky can be bought and influenced. No thanks.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

BlueSky has already received funding from venture capital, and so will need to find a way to monetise its user base. Once enough people depend on the site for their social connections and friend circles, the promise of decentralisation will be quietly removed, APIs will be restricted (as on Reddit/Xitter), terms of service updated to ban circumvention, and the user-controlled algorithms modified to deliver your eyeballs to the advertisers and your data to data brokers, and before long, it’ll be an Instagram-style slot machine, where you mostly see ads and AI pink-slime, but keep pulling the lever in case there’s another update you care about in there somewhere.

[–] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Certainly, this aligns closely with the stance I express in a blog post scheduled for publication on Medium today in opposition to BlueSky. Users will likely be disheartened when BlueSky essentially replicates the characteristics of 2019-2020 Twitter. Ads suck. Centralization sucks. Millionaires and billionaires running these platforms for profit suck.