Archived version, for posterity.
Take note Bluesky fans: Your “benevolent” controlling nonprofit can quickly become a for-profit if enough cash is thrown at the governing board…
The constant hate i see for bluesky on Lemmy and the seemingly irresistible urge to constantly trash it feels not only unwarranted, but also sad how bitter so many people here seek to be.
While not bitter in particular, it is disheartening to see yet another VC-funded social network gain traction, especially under the guise of freedom and decentralization it doesn’t fulfill in the slightest.
Sadly, marketing works, and people just flock to where the ads lead them. And the wheel of Internet history takes a turn over and over again, as people are doomed to repeat their mistakes.
Reddit habits die hard for many.
I don’t hate it, but I’m also not going to pretend it’s the hot, new decentralized microblogging service, come to shake up the status quo. It maybe has the potential to be decentralized, but it’s not currently. It might be a “public benefit” company now, but that’s not an official or regulated classification like being a nonprofit; it’s basically just a promise, and all it would take is a simple vote to change that. All the power still rests with the main corporation, and no matter how altruistic the leadership is, history has shown that every wealthy leader has a price.
I hope it becomes what it promises it’s going to be. More decentralized services are a good thing for people. However, I don’t see it at this moment, and I don’t have any evidence that they’re making meaningful strides to become what they promise; time and inertia are not on their side.
Not a single person in the world other than turbo mega nerds like us will ever care about decentralised platforms, or even know what that means.
That’s not true.
All it takes are enough people getting burned by centralized products to see the value in decentralization.
As businesses get greedier and run out of corners to cut, they will continue to cannibalize their userbase until it becomes irrelevant.
I figure similar to educating people on how burning fossil fuels contribute to global warming, it will just take time and experience to educate people on the value of decentralization.
The biggest hurdle is getting people to understand that they are wrong and don’t know everything.
You might be right and in any case the new boss is better than the old boss right? Then again maybe this is just the honeymoon period which bluesky soaks up as many users as it can before the enshittification begins to start wringing profit out of the enterprise? Time will te if the hate is justified or just sour grapes.
