• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I like Jason but he completely missed the boat on this one.

    The active migration away from social media networks that are owned, controlled by, and distorted by the richest men and most powerful companies in the world to a decentralized platform that is not owned and controlled by billionaires is one of the more hopeful things to happen in what has largely been a bleak year for the human internet as AI slop infects everything and billionaires put their thumbs on the scale of what we see on social media.

    He says this and yet jumps to Bluesky, a platform created by Jack Dorsey and now owned and managed by a crypto bro? You don’t need powers of prophecy to see where Bluesky is headed.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Honestly I don’t know what’s up with the mass delusion about Bluesky being oligarch-free. It’s understandable that most don’t know or haven’t looked into it, but then some folks that should know better are displaying the same ignorance.

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        11 months ago

        People going over don’t care who owns it, they just want to use a platform that regularly censors thoughts they disagree with. That’s it.

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          11 months ago

          They want a platform where THEY can censor. No matter how much I block Leon M. on twitter, I keep seeing his posts

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      11 months ago

      Whether it soon becomes possible to self host an AppView, the one remaining centralized component will tell us a lot about where it’s headed.