If I had a nickel for every time a corpo CEO who founded a microblogging social media platform stepped down to pursue even shittier corpo endeavors, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?

Everything was pointing Mastodon until Bluesky came. And guess what? Turns out the problem is and always has been corporations and centralized ownership.

Corporate owned entities will always enshitify.

Oh damn. It's rotten all the way to the core.

Oh wait. I'm on mastodon. The correct platform to have migrated to

Ok it's not BlueSky as in the BlueSky social media website. It's another separate tool they're developing.

The title is very misleading.

Bsky enhittified the day it was formed.
The problem: Twitter is being centrally controlled, by one large corporation which can be corrupted.
The solution: A new "company" with a "trusted board" instead of investors!
Bsky is slowly becoming twitter because someone who thinks like businessman can't comprehend running a project without a company and a "trusted board" behind it, with capital from elsewhere fueling the whole thing. Jack Dorsey probably had good intentions, but he's just too near sighted (or not the right person) to create a viable alternative disconnected from the business minded framework a true open decentralized twitter replacement needed.

Use mastodon and the fediverse

How it feels to be vindicated for not trusting/buying-in to a new fad

Jay Graber is not CEO anymore, but that doesn't mean she hasn't been busy.

Valorizing CEOs is for idiots and suckers.

The bluesky rise kinda pissed me off. More so because all my artist friends that were on twitter went to bluesky instead of Mastodon when I told them about it as an alternative. everyone collectively decided to ignore a system that already existed and to the centralized thing again. Big suprise.

No surprise. Y'all are dumb if you think the point of all social media isn't to just make money.

For those curious it sounds like the app is an ai powered discovery tool, where you tell it what kinda stuff you like and it tries to find stuff from across bsky to show you based on your interests you told it about

With Attie, users apparently enter what are essentially chatbot prompts. The app will process whatever the user types, find posts they might be into across Bluesky and other atpro-friendly networks, and use that to customize their feed and overall experience.

It sounds like a stupid app, but of everything going on, this is just not something I care about.

As fake as it may sound, chief innovation officer is a real job title

Oh wow, an AI feature that nobody asked for. Such innovation, much wow!

I knew it. Investors started pouring in, it was only a matter of time.

took a role as chief innovation officer of the social media platform.

Uhmmm.... chief what...?

As fake as it may sound

LOL exactly what I thought.

From the article:

New Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider told TechCrunch, “We’ve launched a lot of things inside Bluesky — Starter Packs and custom feeds, and all those kinds of things. This is a standalone product, and it’s the first one that’s built by Jay’s new team.” [emphasis added]

As long as it's open source and customizable, I don't see the problem with this.

It's not bad that we have algorithms to find content. I'm sorting the comments of this thread with an algorithm

The key is that I can choose which algorithm I want to sort by, that algorithm is open source, and I can write my own algorithm, if I want.

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

It's funny, I bailed when they started doing age checks. It made my life better

ITT: headline readers that judge with their full weight on minimal information

I really wonder if Mastodon would have done better with a nicer, more techy name. Also, it’s silly but the double @ usernames look worse than the AT proto usernames.