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Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media (werd.io)

submitted 1 month ago by Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's all fun and games until venture capital kicks in, and exploits that central user data store to further centralise the rest of the network. Even then yes, I think that Mastodon has a lot to learn with Bluesky, on how to make user experience smoother.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Or I think you know, users are going to have to get over themselves because they are currently going from centralized platform to centralized platform to supposedly decentralized platform. Eventually, maybe one day they will figure out that platforms do not work and protocols are what people should be using.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

I get what you say, and I agree; but when it comes to the average user I wonder if they'll even get it. They don't think on the grounds of a "protocol" or a "platform", it used to be "site" and now "app". They do it even with email, of all things, even if it's one of the oldest cross-platform protocols out there!

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

The average user is hopping from phone app to phone app, following their favourite interner celebrity. They don't care about the rest.

Meanwhile, VC backed businesses can buy internet celebrities, and on the cheap.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Humanity is doomed because that means that eventually we're going to have Kim Kardashian as president. We might as well evacuate the Titanic while there are still lifeboats around to do so.