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Bluesky Opens Up -- why @mmasnick (and I) are excited.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/bluesky-opens-up/ via @Techdirt
@jeffjarvis @mmasnick
I don't understand why people treat Bluesky like it is immune to enshittification, or in fact like enshittification isn't its intended end point. Do I need to understand tech stuff to get it? Are people just resigned to having ads shoved down their throats 24/7 so they don't care? What am I missing?
@Beeks @jeffjarvis nothing is immune to enshittification. But it is designed to be resistent to enshittification. The main element of enshittification is the lock-in. The inability to leave. Bluesky is designed to let you leave.
And, hopefully, the knowledge that you can leave creates incentives for Bluesky the company, not to enshittify, because if it does, people will leave.
"Bluesky is designed to let you leave."
Is it? I haven't done a deep dive, but the impression I've gotten is that the text you create is yours and moveable, the "indexers" (I'm sure I'm using the wrong term there) will require so much computing power that it will probably be monopolized. And what good are our scribblings if no-one can find them and read them?
My long bet on Bluesky (let's say 5-7 years) is that we will come to realize that the important parts of it are not what we thought they would be, and it will turn out that those parts were effectively monopolized from the beginning.
@mmasnick @Beeks @jeffjarvis I mean...enshittification is just peak capitalism. Maximizing shareholder value.