Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸
Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸  ·  16 hours ago
A PSA for people active on #Bluesky: your block list is PUBLIC information.

A website that tracks Bluesky stats – which I am not naming here on purpose – makes this job super easy: you can enter *any* username and see the accounts a user has blocked.

(Yes I tested it with my account and was horrified)

I'm alarmed by this because the information could be weaponized for abuse.

Muting may be the safer choice then?

Please read up about Bluesky here: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ (by @cwebber)

h o ʍ l e t t
h o ʍ l e t t  ·  3 days ago
→ Bluesky and enshittification (by @pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

“I would like to use Bluesky. They've done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on #moderation and ranking that I truly admire, and I've got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.”

“My rule – I don't join a service that I can't leave without switching costs – is my Ulysses Pact, and it's keeping me #safe from danger I've sailed into too many times before.”

#enshittification#Bluesky#Ulysses

Niklas Pivic
Niklas Pivic  ·  7 days ago
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

@pluralistic 's words on Bluesky and #enshittification are, to me, true.

These two paragraphs say everything about why I can't trust Bluesky to always have good intentions:

'But here's the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they'd never sell out. I know those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.

They did care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the worsening of their services as the lesser of two evils.'

#bluesky #mastodon#CoryDoctorow

DrBob 😎Mastodon for Harris 😎
DrBob 😎Mastodon for Harris 😎  ·  last week
STOP #ENSHITIFICATION

Support #Mastodon!

I would like to use Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on moderation and ranking that I truly admire, and I’ve got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.

But 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

@pluralistic
#bluesky #x #twitter #facebook #socialmedia #enshitification
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-02-ulysses-pact-tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast-b2f89bb5b4d8

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸  ·  last week

rant, Bluesky, Pixelfed

Let's speedrun the XMPP-alike death of ActivityPub, sure. Let's sacrifice our freedom to corporate overlords all over again, because stuff like that worked out so well in the past. Nothing bad ever happened when projects began using a fundamental technology controlled by a VC-funded, profit-driven company.

In the end only a small userbase will remain vigilant while the majority gets fucked all over again. As always.

I want to scream.
#Bluesky#Pixelfed#Fediverse

Re: [pixelfed/pixelfed] Bluesky Support (Issue #5348) I for one think this would be an excellent idea. Making Pixelfed available for Bluesky users, and for the rest of the fediverse to get a lot more content, would benefit everyone. If done right, it could help introduce the idea that more fediverse projects implement the AT protocol. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you commented.
Re: [pixelfed/pixelfed] Bluesky Support (Issue #5348) I for one think this would be an excellent idea. Making Pixelfed available for Bluesky users, and for the rest of the fediverse to get a lot more content, would benefit everyone. If done right, it could help introduce the idea that more fediverse projects implement the AT protocol. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you commented.
Re: [pixelfed/pixelfed] Bluesky Support (Issue #5348) I for one think this would be an excellent idea. Making Pixelfed available for Bluesky users, and for the rest of the fediverse to get a lot more content, would benefit everyone. If done right, it could help introduce the idea that more fediverse projects implement the AT protocol. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you commented.
Tingo
Tingo  ·  2 weeks ago
With zero experience of the two commercial platforms, concluded the following from the reviews of you raging communists:

Threads - No news. Check out my insta pics. Here's a random thing the algorithm threw.

Blue Sky - Late to the Twitter. Late to leave. This is so like old Twitter.

Mastodon - Freaks, tech geeks, nerds and raging communists.

Is that the deal?

#threads #bluesky #mastodon

Tingo
Tingo  ·  last week
'Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification...'

- Corey Doctrow, Nov '22
@pluralistic

Interested to see if the new FotM commercial platforms can speedrun Doctrow's doctrine, or defy it even.

https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-1ce85b67b456

#threads #bluesky #socialmedia

Tingo
Tingo  ·  2 weeks ago
With zero experience of the two commercial platforms, concluded the following from the reviews of you raging communists:

Threads - No news. Check out my insta pics. Here's a random thing the algorithm threw.

Blue Sky - Late to the Twitter. Late to leave. This is so like old Twitter.

Mastodon - Freaks, tech geeks, nerds and raging communists.

Is that the deal?

#threads #bluesky #mastodon

Ecologia Digital
Ecologia Digital  ·  2 weeks ago
"I would like to use #Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on moderation and ranking that I truly admire, and I’ve got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.
But 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."
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
Martin Holland
Martin Holland  ·  2 weeks ago
Exactly two years ago, we started to post links on #Mastodon via our account @heiseonline 👇

https://mastodon.social/@heiseonline/109314036284496776

It took longer, than I expected, but here we are: it seems like this account now brings continuously more #traffic to heise.de than #X (#Twitter) in its entirety, although it only has ¼ of the follower number (and many of them don't seem to be active anymore).
I'll prepare some graphs after the weekend.

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#MastodonMigration
#TwitterMigration
#Fediverse

Martin Holland
Martin Holland  ·  2 weeks ago
The week is over, here are some charts:
For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
But I forgot, that's not just via @heiseonline, but also @heisec, @ct_Magazin, @heiseautos, @iX_Magazin etc. (but for Twitter its the same).

#Bluesky is way behind, #Threads even more. Only Twitter is clearly falling.

(🧵 1/3)

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#Fediverse

Martin Holland
Martin Holland  ·  2 weeks ago
If you add all the #TwitterAlternative s, they have been in the lead for a while now.

If you add @Flipboard and sum it up wit #Mastodon (because #Fediverse 😉), then #Facebook ist not far.

But, if you have a look on the numbers since the beginning of 2022, then it's clear, that this is mainly a story about the decline of #Twitter.

(🧵 2/3)

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#ElonMusk
#Bluesky
#Threads
#MastodonMigration