Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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"I’m not on Bluesky and I don’t have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will

When a platform can hold the people you care about or rely upon hostage – when it can credibly threaten you with disconnection and exile – that platform can abuse you in lots of ways without losing your business. In other words, they can enshittify their service."

  • vzq@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Lemmy is tribalistic by design, as is Mastodon. It’s the big problem with instance based federation.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I glad that the pubg protocol has such widespread adoption; i’d like to think that it gives a better than average chance that I can find a new platform after the diet reddit instances repeat history and enshitify lemmy and I hope our admins are able to see it coming to delay it or find work arounds/alternatives.