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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

"The Bluesky features we covet are almost always built on structures that were designed in anticipation of eventually treating the network’s users as a resource to be mined for profit. The question we should ask before incorporating any given feature is not: Can we do that here? but rather: Can it be done without replicating the exploitative structures it’s built on there?"

destructured.net/bluesky-enshi

destructuredBluesky and enshittification | destructuredLots of people are rushing to Bluesky thinking it will turn out differently from Twitter. They’re almost certainly wrong. Lots of people on the fediverse expect the <a href=

I'm not sure yet whether I fully agree with this, but I thought it was an intriguing perspective

@reillypascal my feeling is that at this point there are too many uncertainties to predict how things will unfold with #bluesky

Sure there are some warning signs, but those may not matter in the end. Beside users themselves much depends on what other devs will do with #atproto and the open source code, not to mention regulation and the reaction of the centralized platforms

There is also the #wordpress / #wpengine "war" that shows the complex scenarios in a which business models can unravel.