Why I recommend against Bluesky
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  • bizarroland@fedia.io
    15·
    8 hours ago

    Just so that I get this out while it’s fresh on my mind, what’s wrong with the internet right now is cyberfeudalism.

    The internet is essentially an infinite world, so no matter how much the large companies gobble up, we’ll always be able to go somewhere else.

    That being said, it gets really fucking exhausting to move over and over again to different apps and different locations just so to talk to people without some greedy, megalithic corporation there, snooping on everything you say and ingesting your words to feed some abomination intelligence simulation or to figure out the best way to sell you a new pair of fucking socks.

    All of that being said, I’m just saying it fucking sucks to continuously be a refugee, and what sucks about apps and companies and programs that end up selling out for a dollar is that if you don’t emmigrate to a new platform, you become nothing.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      8 hours ago

      All of that being said, I’m just saying it fucking sucks to continuously be a refugee, and what sucks about apps and companies and programs that end up selling out for a dollar is that if you don’t emmigrate to a new platform, you become nothing.

      App and companies aren’t the only choice. Back in our internet roots you set up your own website to share your views. If you wanted real time chat we had telnet chat and later IRC. Your same telnet client worked on every server. Your browser was able to view every page.

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        IRC has always been kinda clunky. I’ve never been able to get into using it and it’s always a pain when I find myself having to. Thankfully chat infrastructure is advancing but it’s been a step by step process. Making E2EE work right is still not smooth or a guaranteed feature

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
        4·
        6 hours ago

        If I want to scream into the void, I can do that anywhere and anytime, and I do not need a web server to do it.

        To quote Ariel, I want to be where the people are.

        • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          This is true. I like being able to talk to people on the internet down hopefully make a friend somewhere along the way. The fact that this is still hard is something we really need to work on. I’ve just never really felt the need for a personal website, I’m not into blogging or I can probably already have one. I just don’t write enough of that level of substance to build myself a Blog of any sort and I’m not really interested in the attention that publishing seems to imply. I like things a bit more casual.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          And to paraphrase Michael Bolton from Office Space, why should we be the ones who have to move? The corporations are the ones who suck!

    • Rymrgand's Daughter @lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      Idk I’m kinda used to it, maybe that’s from growing up with Aol handing out disks at the supermarket to this. Being a refugee doesn’t bother me. If anything the ability to tank a corpo by making something new is kinda fun.

      That being said I can see a point where that becomes impossible or just too difficult financially. That other comment about it needing basically 300 m to start a new instance really got me thinking. Is it just impossible for bluesky to fix itself now? I can see why it’s not a priority from a corpo perspective but is this something that the team could fix if they made it a priority now? or is the need to keep one ID simply in compatible with the fedverse?

      • SolacefromSilence@fedia.io
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Why would they want to “fix” it?

        I want Twitter to fail for how it’s turned, but until shown otherwise, bluesky is another closed system. It’s better than Twitter and I hope they prove me wrong.

        • Rymrgand's Daughter @lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Because they don’t want to be twitter clone 7 in 5 years? I personally don’t care because I never used Twitter, but I use Bluesky to yell at senators in between emails and phone calls. So I am fine with abandoning the platform when it’s no longer useful for that.

          The digital refugee system will continue as projects start and either collapse or thrive long enough to become corpo garbage.

          Bluesky is in a position to really change that as more and more people ditch twitter. Users don’t even have to understand the fedverse or decentralization to use it. They should want to not become the next MySpace or worse.