bluesky is nazi Jack, elons bff, new scam. Ditch that trash. delete bluesky & fb.

@FediTips @jwz

Just another corporation. Been saying that all along but some people block and "report" me for the truth.

Truth haters are welcome to block me but reporting me to the admin is useless because I AM an admin on Beamship 😂

People think NFTs are for money laundering.

When in fact the more pernicious use is #surveillance

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusting_…

While true, the team in that article also state that they "will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.)"

I do hope that this remains true, as the more alternatives to the bird site, the better. A lot of people still see Mastodon as too isolated, which is fair.

From what I gather in the comments, it seems the users are okay with it as long as there are no actual crypto stuff and no ads. Not a high bar to clear, but when your other experience is with Twitter, you'd take what you can get.

The Fediverse is still the more optimal choice, but overall I'm more cautiously optimistic about Bluesky rn. It's interesting to see how it will sustain itself in the future without succumbing to ads, and maybe there's lessons to learn from it too.

Just this once I would like to have been wrong.

But no.

yes, that was to be expected.

I’m glad that Mastodon is licensed under AGPL, because that makes it much less likely to be proprietarized (as long as a diverse enough group of people contributes).
@jwz

Yeah, Bluesky is not worth it. Just more tech bros in power. Plus, their attempts to filter content are laughable and are often self defeating.

But I need to know, WTF is an "NFT Analyst"?!? Seems like a pretty simple gig, tbh. I think Keanu Reeves showed that he nailed the job requirements here:

youtu.be/h0-fYXR3M2o?si=oaZENy…

#nfts #keanureeves #bluesky

BlueSky writes in the announcement:
"Our lead, Blockchain Capital, shares our philosophy that technology should serve the user, not the reverse — the technology being used should never come at the expense of the user experience".

Ah, the user experience! Meta (or any other big-tech company in the surveillance capitalism league) would probably come up with a simular statement if asked ...!

p.s. A number of people have pointed out that the current CEO of BlueSky is also from a blockchain/cryptocurrency background:

2015 - Engineer at blockchain company SkuChain

2015 - Worked assembling bitcoin mining equipment

2016 - Developer on Zcash cryptocurrency

2019 - Happening Inc founder (cannot find any trace of this, no idea if it involves blockchain)

2021 - CEO of BlueSky

Also, the current BlueSky board seems to be three people: two blockchain experts and one non-blockchain person.

No surprises here. Bsky scored very high on my enshittification bingo card since day one, but there's no need to go through the whole list. The most important parts:
- Is it closed source? Yes (partially).
- Is it for-profit? Yes.
- Is it centralized? Yes.

Such projects turn into garbage very fast these days. Historically, the process was much slower (although the end result was the same).

I didn't think that they were privacy respecting in the first place lol

They've always looked sketchy to me

Having such people owning it and running it doesn't bode well at all, when looking at the history of VCs and blockchain. They are there just to make vast amounts of money, and sooner or later they enshittify and exploit their users.

Small amounts of money or covering costs are not enough for such people.