More Unwanted Changes At X Lead To Exodus to Bluesky

[Cristiano]

People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes

Bluesky says it added 500,000 new users.

www.theverge.com

 

[Isabeau]

He’s bananas.

The new terms of service also say that any disputes with the company will be brought before the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas — where a judge-slash-Tesla-investor was presiding over multiple lawsuits involving Musk and his companies.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Bluesky might finally get a critical mass to be a proper alternative. ....but do they have a PC webapp yet?

 

[Free]

 

[Noodles]

I find it to be the best of the Twitter alternatives. Feels the most like "old Twitter" and as much as I would want Mastodon to be a thing, its not going to be.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Bluesky's long, slow slide into encrapification begins now.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Amir Shevat of Darkmode, co-creator of Kubernetes Joe Beda, and others.

You can read the whole thing if you want; but the short form is that Bluesky has been partially sold off to a consortium of cryptobro venture capitalists and they have been given a board seat. While Bluesky insists that it still "doesn't use blockchain/cryptocurrency" in its app, venture capitalists as a rule push a requirement of endless growth on the things they finance so that WILL change eventually, it is a matter of when not if. You can also expect them to monetize Bluesky in every possible way with an eye to maximizing profit, including by scraping and selling your data, training or integrating AI, allowing the service to be colonized by propaganda bots, and using algorithms to push ads.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Oh yeah, it will start now. No sympathy. People who fled from Twitter to Blusky knew what happened if a company goes bonkers. And just made the same mistake again, trusting some tech bros instead of using open alternatives. Some people just will never learn.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Oh yeah, it will start now. No sympathy. People who fled from Twitter to Blusky knew what happened if a company goes bonkers. And just made the same mistake again, trusting some tech bros instead of using open alternatives. Some people just will never learn.

I posted this link in April 2023 but it bears repeating.

No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating.

Wherein I attempt to clarify a number of ridiculous and false narratives currently taking hold about Musk and Dorsey’s “rivalry.”

davetroy.medium.com