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Be Wary of Bluesky (kevinak.se)
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In 2023, Bluesky's CTO Paul Frazee was asked what would happen if Bluesky ever turned against its users. His answer:

it would look something like this: bluesky has gone evil. there's a new alternative called freesky that people are rushing to. I'm switching to freesky

That's the same argument people made about Twitter. "If it goes bad, we'll just leave." We know how that played out.

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[โ€“] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

But every counter-argument to the concerns above rests on the same foundation: technically, users can leave. Technically, you can self-host. Technically, you can run your own relay. The capability exists at every layer. But people don't do these things. They never have with any protocol. Not email, not RSS, not XMPP. The default wins. Always.

except those explicit examples showing that people do exactly those things?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago

    with XMPP there's the cautionary tale of Google Talk. For the rest I'm not aware of such an example but email is becoming more centralized than ever and RSS is much less prominent than it once was, mostly replaced by profiles to be followed on closed off platforms.

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