The ‘success’ of Bluesky caught me by surprise, I must admit that. I did not expect people who left Twitter in anger or because they were disappointed by what Twitter turned into to simply join an almost exact copy of it, under another leadership. The issue was not that Twitter was owned by a billionaire, at least not for me: the issue was that it was owned.
For me (I had been a Twitter user since it was launched), beside the good old blogs/personal websites, the Fediverse still is the sole credible alternative that I can think of that allows people to easily express themselves without being owned/controlled by any corporation and/or be treated like cattle.
That’s the reason why I joined the Fediverse the day I quit Twitter (that happened a few years before Musk, I left out of exhaustion facing the constant anger/hate that had become the norm). That’s also why I never considered Bluesky an option for my usage. I wanted not to reproduce the same mistake I made using Twitter. That’s also why no matter how not trendy it is I do still own a personal website too ;)
As I said in another thread: I feel like many people who went to Bluesky were desperate for it to work and grow, rather than necessarily believing it would work and grow and in some cases - weren’t even people who the Twitter style even appealed to. They just went there to try and do a bit of damage to Twitter. This is likely why its now slowly losing activity.
I signed up to Bluesky not too long after it surged. And I made a few comments, but quickly just… didn’t have anything say. It’s just a “shout into the ether” site like Twitter - but smaller, and no nazis. That’s a good thing in itself, but in an ideal world I would never really use it.
Same, I was not a Twitter user but the user base did seem generally more educated and I expected them to more easily identify the problem. It’s not even like Twitter was some pleasant, socially responsible place when Jack Dorsey ran it. It was terrible and platformed all sorts of terrible people and the media pointed that out constantly.
The ‘success’ of Bluesky caught me by surprise, I must admit that. I did not expect people who left Twitter in anger or because they were disappointed by what Twitter turned into to simply join an almost exact copy of it, under another leadership. The issue was not that Twitter was owned by a billionaire, at least not for me: the issue was that it was owned.
For me (I had been a Twitter user since it was launched), beside the good old blogs/personal websites, the Fediverse still is the sole credible alternative that I can think of that allows people to easily express themselves without being owned/controlled by any corporation and/or be treated like cattle.
That’s the reason why I joined the Fediverse the day I quit Twitter (that happened a few years before Musk, I left out of exhaustion facing the constant anger/hate that had become the norm). That’s also why I never considered Bluesky an option for my usage. I wanted not to reproduce the same mistake I made using Twitter. That’s also why no matter how not trendy it is I do still own a personal website too ;)
As I said in another thread: I feel like many people who went to Bluesky were desperate for it to work and grow, rather than necessarily believing it would work and grow and in some cases - weren’t even people who the Twitter style even appealed to. They just went there to try and do a bit of damage to Twitter. This is likely why its now slowly losing activity.
I signed up to Bluesky not too long after it surged. And I made a few comments, but quickly just… didn’t have anything say. It’s just a “shout into the ether” site like Twitter - but smaller, and no nazis. That’s a good thing in itself, but in an ideal world I would never really use it.
Same, I was not a Twitter user but the user base did seem generally more educated and I expected them to more easily identify the problem. It’s not even like Twitter was some pleasant, socially responsible place when Jack Dorsey ran it. It was terrible and platformed all sorts of terrible people and the media pointed that out constantly.