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Bluesky decides to enshittify at record speed! (gizmodo.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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I guess I'm glad I was never a big Twat, so Bluesky wasn't a place of refuge for me the way Lemmy was when Reddit went off the rails.

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[–] 10 points 5 months ago (6 children)

At some point they are going to have to make money.

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  • [–] 56 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The fediverse:

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Social media in general don't need to. Atpor servers operators in general don't need to. But Bluesky does, because it's accountable in front of its investors. So yes, they do have to make money, and no, there is no solution that does not go with some level of enshittification. And then they'll get pressed to make more money, to grow their revenues every year. And it can only go down from there.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    I agree that the server operators will need to do something to recoup costs. It's gonna be non-targeted ads, local to a server, or it's gonna be subscription. Or - ugh - it's gonna be selling our activities to some vendor. And there's gonna be a bit where some op goes too far and we all bail. Sure.

    But we can bail, almost. And we can pick a better server. And we can vote against the fucking algorithm with our feet.

    And while the idea that server ops need to break even is unpopular, it is the reality that's coming.

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