This is a pretty great, long form post about the structure of Bluesky, and how it’s largely kinda pretending to be decentralized at the moment. I’m not trying to make a dig at it. I’ve enjoyed the platform myself for a while, but it’s good to learn more about how it actually works.

This article was shared on Mastodon via its author here.

  • @solrize@lemmy.world
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    14 months ago

    No I don’t think the distinction matters. Twitter sucks because it’s full of Nazis. It’s irrelevant that Twitter doesn’t supply the Nazis itself. The culture that a platform fosters is part of the platform.

    As for the visibility of the labelling on bsky, idk, I guess I’ll take your word for it. It had sounded like a built in feature that was visible to everyone, but ok, maybe not.

    • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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      14 months ago

      And yet, everybody stayed until the Muskrat took over. Because until then it wasn’t the platform telling people to be nazis and nazis were a nuisance but a minority - as are people who falsely accuse scientists of being anti-science on BSky. That’s exactly what I’m saying.

      • @solrize@lemmy.world
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        14 months ago

        If the label appears on your profile for everyone to see without further info then it’s truth value is thrown away. IDK how big a problem it really is on bsky now though. The other guy says it is, you seem to think the opposite, I don’t care enough to look into it further.

        If Twitter went Nazi post-Musk while it’s software stayed about the same, that shows that management really does shoulder blame.

        • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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          14 months ago

          It doesn’t appear for everyone to see.

          I feel like we’re talking past each other and it’s too exhausting to try and get across what I’m saying. Have a pleasant day.

          • @solrize@lemmy.world
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            14 months ago

            It doesn’t appear for everyone to see.

            Every user of the extension then, which is apparently a lot of users, enough to affect the site culture, if the other guy’s report reflects reality.