Comment by newsoftheday

3 days ago

I know noone on BlueSky, I do have friends on X. We liked Twitter and we like X.

I salute the solidarity /s

Joking aside, I think what we see in the larger scheme is a fracturing of social media. More choice, more competition.

This is a good thing

  • > More choice, more competition. This is a good thing.

    hopefully one day we lurk at the same protocol and type: with more federations, more choice. This is a good thing.

    • ATProto is designed to improve residence and resistance over time. The starting point and requirement was a UX that didn't suck. If you actually want to build a new social fabric that everyone will eventually adopt, you need to be easy and safe for normies, they care more about that than the federated stuff.

      Has anyone from the blockchain and federated world found a UX for key management that doesn't suck? Same problem, same non-solution afaik, for how many years now?

  • More choice, more competition, more echochambers.

    • Hasn't it always been echochambers? 2000s/2010s forums, irc servers, heavily moderated reddit... Has there ever been free speech truly?

      Pre ~2020 4chan was rather open and unmoderated, but also had CSAM issues.

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    • I'll take the echo chamber over being force to read racist and nazi propaganda any day, though kinda hard when the US government is one of the sources of this content.

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