wow they didn’t say you could, rude

ICE is precisely the kinda thing the “The Department Of Homeland Security” would be there to defend us from if the DHS wasn’t also full of shit.

Fuck ICE

Those numbers are small in the grand scheme of things, but for a newer and open source community developed project those are absurd numbers, ESPECIALLY because it isn’t a flash in the pan, many of those users call the fediverse home and use it daily.

It’s interesting what a bubble lemmy users are in. There is a reason it is not taking off.

Yeah, we don’t have millions in VC or private equity funding to dump into marketing and to smooze with the tech press enough for them to actually do their jobs as journalists and cover the fediverse with a modicum more of nuance then “Mastodon is just for nerds, even the Mastodon CEO says so! Use Bluesky, it is corporate and its marketing promises what the fediverse already has so in that sense they are equivalent and lets be honest that means you should use Bluesky.”

The code isn’t available for the parts that aren’t open source? Just because a component of a system is open source doesn’t mean the entire system can be called open source.

That is a dangerous conflation to make in public discourse about this as it warps the conversation in artificial ways.

Make NO mistake if the entire system was actually open source they would have no way to lucratively monetize bluesky, and that is precisely what they will do.

The CEO of Bluesky has gone on record saying they haven’t ruled out monetizing through forcing ads on a system. Do you not understand that is functionally impossible to force ads on a fully open source system?

how can you be so stunningly naive

The entire appview layer is proprietary in practice and in spirit.

*an incomplete subset of Bluesky is opensource

Twitter

Until there’s overt advertising its unlikely to enshittify the normal way.

Trust me we will be deep into that territory so fast it is going to make your head spin.

Wikipedia has outlived most of “web2.0” because its funded by donations and run by volunteers.

Private equity and VC funding can’t directly buy Wikipedia and dissect it because it is an at least somewhat functional non-profit organization. That is the only reason.

then the Bluesky exodus will really have a solid reason to try to understand why decentralisation is so important…

or people will have lost the ability to imagine alternative and better places…

…which is where we come in to make sure they don’t forget!

It is the path of least resistance because it just goes in circles

Maybe the argument is that it “will be”, but at the moment it is not

Hey, I have a couch you should buy, it isn’t comfy right now but trust me, im a random stranger and I promise you on my word that after you buy it one day soon I will come back and fix it up so it is the comfiest couch ever!

Also maybe like somebody could make a non-profit to add features to the couch my business already sold customers on with marketing hype!

Time for the fediverse to reflect on this lamentable failure to capture the zeitgeist

We haven’t failed, the wise ones among us understand companies like bluesky grow cancerously, and that cancerous growth is neither desirable nor emulatable (especially in pace) in a healthy system.

This is such a half-assed dog and pony show.

They have millions in investment, why do they need someone else to fund this? Why don’t the bluesky team directly and materially support them?

This is a core aspect of Bluesky’s marketing and they asking other volunteers to help make them rich.

Bluesky will follow the same enshittification trajectory Twitter did, it is just the beginning of the rollercoaster where the coaster is slowly brought up to the top to be launched… and everyone is exclaiming “wow I haven’t even thrown up yet!” as if that was any indicator of how much they were about to throw up…