People ask: "Why the preoccupation with #Bluesky? Lots of good folks are going there and love it."
@Daojoan does a great job of providing the long answer in this brilliant piece: joanwestenberg.com/big-tech-wa…
But the short answer is that, by funneling users onto another unsafe centralized corporate platform, #Bluesky inhibits the construction of truly defensible public social media.
So now, when something happens over on Bluesky, the Fedi will not be ready to absorb a rapid mass migration.
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Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free
Big Tech designed their platforms to keep you trapped. YouTube, X, Instagram, and TikTok aren't neutral spaces. They're businesses built on capturing your attention and data.Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
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Mastodon Migration
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •In essence #Bluesky is a trap, a Potemkin village with an appealing facade, but behind the false exterior it's the same old centralized corporate walled garden (journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…). Users now have the illusion of reach and freedom, but that can be denied at a moment's notice. Alternatively, it can be suppressed gradually, and they may not even know it.
And all the while users are building their corporate prison, they are not engaged in fortifying a defensible public resource.
Bluesky: Network topology, polarization, and algorithmic curation
journals.plos.org