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   Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 06:04:50 JST Tim Bray

   Super disappointed that this was left undisclosed: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b

   I don’t see how you can build a VC-supported free product without slipping into the Torment Nexus which is to say AdTech.

   I do believe the Bluesky people really do want to try to do this. But I still don’t see how.

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 06:09:39 JST tom jennings

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     @timbray

     They can't. In 2026 it's not even a good fantasy.

     The way these corps treat data, im gonna delete my acct now/soon, though it provebly won't ever be deleted in fact. And its an empty gesture anyway.

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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:00:13 JST tyil

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     • jwz
     @jwz@mastodon.social @timbray@cosocial.ca I cannot comprehend why you keep giving them the benefit of the doubt.Once you realize that the NPC meme is actually true, and most people in this world are in fact NPCs, it all starts making sense.
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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:00:14 JST jwz

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     @timbray I am shocked, shocked to learn that the not-actually-federated, locked-in social network started by a bunch of cryptocurrency people is all in on cryptocurrency, VC and ads.

     I cannot comprehend why you keep giving them the benefit of the doubt. They have told you who they are, repeatedly.