They’re really speedrunning the enshittification, aren’t they?
What enshittification? I haven’t noticed any dark patterns in the Bluesky app.
I’d gladly pay a subscription for a useable service than have ads plastered all over it. It’s infinitely better than the shitshow that is X.
Read the article, it shows the plans in detail.
I am happy to pay for a service I’m using and getting value from if the price is fair, and if they can find a model where it’s sustainable with some % paid and some still free so that it’s available to everyone, and do that without ads or data scraping or treating users as a commodity I think that’s as close as we’ll get to tech utopia.
The “users are the product” tech model needs to die. We will need to start paying for our stuff. But I think that will create a better internet.
Fully agree with this. I’d rather pay for the things I use and get a good product.
- Bluesky+ profile badge
- Custom app icons
- Profile customizations
- Higher video upload limits
- High quality video resolution
- Inline post translations (coming soon)
- Post analytics (coming soon)
- Bookmark folders (coming soon)
These seem fair ideas? They're not paywalling critical functionality and you can't run a massive social network for free. It's not the same attitude as the wider Fediverse, and I understand why that rubs people the wrong way, but it's hardly outrageous.
This isn't the last stop on the enshitification express.
correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't enshittification mean that the provider reduces functionality? it seems to me that didn't happen
It's refreshing to see them not including "Ad-free" as a feature
Well... my wallet is certainly hurting after the latest $0 price increase on my $0 Mastodon subscription.
(kidding, in fact, I actually donate monthly to my instance.)
Quite. Servers aren't free and someone needs to pay the bills and increasingly distribute the moderation load. I'm happy with my Mastodon and following a few federated accounts on threads and bsky. But I'm not going to someone they are a bad person for choosing something that is familiar yet a little different while escaping x/itter.
they should fire aaron rodericks, ban singal, and listen to trans people first if they want our money
You forgot "it's not my job to contribute to a community project" and "if they do enshittify it, I'll just move to the next Big Thing, making more billionaires who screw us over in the process."
Lol, I just got that response in another thread about them leaning in on the justification accounts because I assumed the next step would be taking existing joke accounts over like most of these platforms have done.
Bluesky is certainly speedrunning it.
Why is my cursor finding ways to delete my Bluesky account?
...and we're back to where we started.
... and this is why I'm glad I'm just on the fediverse
Shove your subscriptions up your gravy ring. Mastodon >>>>
People will always fall into the trap of corpo slop, again and again.
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