This kind of thinking frustrates me, creating a good social media site/service should not be about inifinite growth or numbers games, it should be about creating a good and sustainable community, something so far I have only seen some of fedi try to do.

Commercial social media only cares about numbers, not sustainability nor creating a decent community.

If only running an appview didn’t require VC level money… I mean it’s still way better than twitter, twitter would have never allowed fed.brid.gy or alternative clients and whatnot but it would still be nice if there was more than one service on the protocol

I read Chris Webber’s essay and I kinda agree. Bluesky is really just another twitter.

That being said I think we are entering into an era of diversification, not perhaps how we would like (through federation) but rather, through people understanding finally that the platform itself is making a choice in what kind of content it serves. We used to have this idea that the platform was just a “neutral third party” like a phone company. But in fact, it’s a publisher with its own editorial line. It pushes that line through algorithms and what voices it wants to amplify or suppress.

As people understand this more, they are going to be much more critical of not just “the media” but also “the platform” and why it chose to show that media to its audience.

There is a blog post from 2023, but worth reading in case you don’t know it:

BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization

I wonder how many independent bluesky servers there are.

22 million users. 2700 million likes. 122 likes per user?

That engagement ratio seems a little off?