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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 03:34:49 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   We're coming to the point where decentralized social media contains the only structures we're going to have left that aren't completely controlled by hard-right interests

   The one centralized holdout is Bluesky, which means either that's going to need to be decentralized, or it's going to be the next right-wing target over this year probably

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 03:54:07 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • The_Icarian

     @The_Icarian Afaik Dorsey no longer has any governance role in Bluesky, though he did arrange the initial funding

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     The_Icarian (the_icarian@federated.press)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 03:54:08 JST The_Icarian

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     @cwebber Bluesky is owned by the same techbro who started Twit and sold it to The Bad Musk. What do you think is going to happen to it?

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     Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 03:55:02 JST Robert W. Gehl

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     @cwebber I was literally thinking the same thing today re: Bluesky. Especially in light of US states getting into regulating algorithms (mostly to protect freeze peach)

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     Cifer (teskariel@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 04:00:49 JST Cifer

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     • The_Icarian

     @cwebber @The_Icarian Correct, Dorsey is gone, specifically because Bluesky wanted more moderation than he was comfortable with. So that's a good sign, even though I'm still wary of the platform.

     Jure Repinc :linux: :kde: repeated this.
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     Mx Amber Alex (she/it) 😷 (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 04:02:38 JST Mx Amber Alex (she/it) 😷

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     @cwebber I mean, Bluesky persecutes queer and feminist stuff as "mature" or "adult" and doesn't ban nazis, only limits their reach, was partially bought out by a crypto company and is headed by a crpyto grifter.

     "holdout"? not sure.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 04:19:47 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Bass #AlleBurgers #EcoHumanist

     @bassjobsen https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/

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     Bass #AlleBurgers #EcoHumanist (bassjobsen@mastodon.nl)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 04:19:49 JST Bass #AlleBurgers #EcoHumanist

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     @cwebber It is confusing, but is BS not already decentralized by using the AT protocol? The probleem seems that everyone uses the same server owned by another tech giant.

     https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/what-is-bluesky-everything-to-know-about-the-x-competitor/

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     PunkJedi (punkjedi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 04:23:39 JST PunkJedi

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     @cwebber BlueSky is decentralized, and is a public benefit corporation https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/what-is-bluesky-everything-to-know-about-the-x-competitor/

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 04:23:39 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • PunkJedi

     @punkjedi oh thanks, could you please tell me more about the "bluesky network" being decentralized? is it different than the "mastodon network"?

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     Fedo ¶ (fdrc_ff@www.foxyhole.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:35:11 JST Fedo ¶

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     • Cifer
     • The_Icarian

     @Teskariel@eldritch.cafe @cwebber@social.coop @The_Icarian@federated.press I don't think I will be able to trust a for profit platform ever again. There was a point in web history in which online spaces should have stopped being commercial spaces and we have passed it loooong time ago, I guess it's time to set some boundaries

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:37:27 JST Nazo

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     @cwebber Bluesky is already owned by bad people. It doesn't even need to be a target. It's going to go hard right willingly and a lot of people are going to be very very surprised for some reason.

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     faraiwe (faraiwe@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:37:57 JST faraiwe

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     @cwebber it's already controlled by right wing interests.

     #BlueSky is a #DTBO , OWNED by vc crypto techbros. Guess where their allegiance falls? Profit.

     Those guys ALWAYS align with fascists

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:38:44 JST Mastodon Migration

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     @cwebber

     The only small quibble with this is that it is not clear that Bluesky is not currently already owned by hard right interests. And after this next Bain Capital funding round resulting in a $700M valuation, it is a veritable certainty.

     See "Who actually owns Bluesky?": https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/113801236486095587

     #Bluesky

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 03:54:22 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     People have found this post again for some reason today/yesterday. It's getting a lot of boosts again. Which I guess isn't surprising because it's remained topical.