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Screenshot reading: 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 [Note: the final sentence in this screenshot is highlighted in blue]

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Screenshot reading: 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 [Note: the final sentence in this screenshot is highlighted in blue]
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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 02:49:47 JST Clive Thompson
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For folks still on Twitter -- or who are trying to reconstitute their networks on Bluesky or Threads -- probably/possibly the most persuasive part of @pluralistic's argument ...
... is that these non-portable/can't-leave-with-your-followers services are just a huge *risk* to use
How many hours, days, years will you sink into finding and cultivating a collection of awesome people?
That's time your risk uttetrly *wasting* if you can't leave
how much time do we have to *waste*?

In conversation about 22 days ago from saturation.social permalink