I feel like a lot of people don’t seem to realize why the average person uses a platform like Bluesky. They’re not going down a checklist of features they want to see. Most people see the artists/celebrities/politicians they want to hear from on a given platform, and make an account on that platform so they can follow them.

And sure, nothing is stopping Bluesky from ending up like Twitter, at which point the users will find another platform to use. Such is the circle of Internet life.

Bluesky’s “open” BS line is proven BS by them not being federated already, even within their own non-activitypub protocol. This is also by design. Bluesky is what MSNBC was in the 2000’s, an oasis from the now way more rightwing thing they consumed before (CNN/Twitter) that dominated discourse in that era, when war is breaking out and more power is being centralized in the executive while ever more bounds are broken from the state-adjacent private sector. It has a purpose for the bourgeois that consume it, but it’s not like fediverse shit, which is REAL like pre-corporate internet, and has the potential to actually change everything.

Failure from idiot Americans to move from tiktok to another corporate video platform and from Twitter to Blue sky . I’m done giving a shit about Americans today though, tired of laughing at their ineptitude.