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   Roni Laukkarinen (rolle@mementomori.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 00:11:05 JST Roni Laukkarinen

   Bluesky users often forget that nothing prevents it from following the same path as Meta, Google, or X. All these major players started with an open-source, user-centric approach - look at them now.

   A VC-funded company doesn't run on good intentions alone. Where will Bluesky be in a decade? We can only guess, but based on social media history, there are two highly likely outcomes:

   1. The platform grows, attracts more users, and inevitably shifts toward monetization - introducing ads, engagement-boosting tactics, and other profit-driven features. In other words: enshittification.
   2. The service shuts down or gets sold to another company.

   Bluesky's fate remains uncertain, but one thing is clear: protocols are meaningless if they aren't fully open and widely adopted from the very start.

   #Bluesky #SocialWeb #SocialMedia

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     Justin ⏚ (justinh@twit.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 05:51:16 JST Justin ⏚

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