X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.
And that’s fine.
Bluesky is in its last phase of proving the important point. Once all the regular journalists move away from Twitter, it will have been proven, that migration away from a defacto “standard” platform can happen, even though it’s a pain in the ass.
Enshitification commencing in 10… 9…
And that’s fine. Bluesky is in its last phase of proving the important point. Once all the regular journalists move away from Twitter, it will have been proven, that migration away from a defacto “standard” platform can happen, even though it’s a pain in the ass.
Honestly I think they already hit critical mass.
Not until news media starts quoting posts on Bluesky as much as, or more than, they do Xitter.
There’s still the force of habit and larger engagement on Xitter for many established names.