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   Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 08:11:13 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

   With the mysteriously sudden and inexplicable recent resurgence of Bluesky chatter and supposedly precious invites to this billionaire-backed Twitter 2.0, a reminder of this piece about "BlueSky cosplaying decentralization": https://rys.io/en/167.html

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     Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 08:35:27 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

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     "[Bluesky] is the brainchild of Jack Dorsey, which is no surprise to anyone who’s been paying any attention to BS. Jack Dorsey is of course the former CEO of Twitter, who famously said: 'Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.' This aged roughly as well as fresh milk out in the midday July sun in Portugal. Jack also heavily promoted cryptocurrencies, scammed people using NFTs, and donated a bunch of BTC to Nostr, a 'censorship-resistant' social media platform, because of course. And finally, there’s this comment of his (posted on Nostr; BlueSky not good enough for Jack, it seems). Crucial bit: 'Likes are superficial and exist only to inform an algorithm. Relevance algorithms have their place, but they are best informed by a truly costly action.' No, you stockholder-value-optimizing-robot, likes exist to inform the author that you liked their post."

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     Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 08:36:09 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

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     "Of course the sad reality is that people will buy the hype, build communities under the everloving watchful eye of Jack “Musk is the singular solution I trust, likes are superficial if not paid for” Dorsey. And then do a surprised picachu face when inevitably, sooner or later, some surveillance capitalist robber baron enshittifies it to a point of complete unusefulness. It fascinates me how quickly people forget lessons from the whole Twitter kerfuffle, and just fall for another Silicon Valley silly con. Without even skipping a beat."