Comment by jarjoura
3 days ago
There's no reason Bluesky has emulate what FB Newsfeed and Twitter/X did to solve engagement by promoting certain items over others.
At the very least, they do have hindsight to learn from.
3 days ago
There's no reason Bluesky has emulate what FB Newsfeed and Twitter/X did to solve engagement by promoting certain items over others.
At the very least, they do have hindsight to learn from.
There's the profit motive. It's funded by venture capital, so it has to grow at all costs (check) and then cash out.
Twitter didn't start doing it (the pay-for-attention model) until 17 years after it was founded, so, I mean, bsky will probably be okay for a _while_.
Alternative reading: It took 17 years for venture capitalists to figure out the pay-for-attention model, at which point they immediately applied it to everything they could.
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