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Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter (www.engadget.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bluesky is pretty fun and I'm glad he's not there shitting it up anymore. I've only seen one nutsack on there so far.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Bluesky hasn't been hyper-commoditized yet. I don't see ads everywhere. I don't have bots jamming ×º°”˜”°º× 🎀 𝒫𝓊𝓈𝓈𝓎 𝐼𝓃 𝐵𝒾♡ 🎀 ×º°”˜”°º× into my feed. I'm not being spammed with "We noticed you haven't joined our premium service yet, but for $8/mo we'll stop showing you this message!" annoyance marketing.

But I've got no doubt its coming. It just hasn't hit that Twitter-level critical mass of users, such that enshittification turns a profit rather than curbing adoption.

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It just hasn’t hit that Twitter-level critical mass of users

Twitter used to be bigger than it is now and it also used to have less spam. So clearly size isn't the problem.

The problem with twitter is Musk fired all the people who spent their day figuring out how to hide (or just delete) shitty content.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Twitter used to be bigger than it is now and it also used to have less spam. So clearly size isn’t the problem.

Twitter usage surged significantly prior to the Musk buyout. In 2010 they had 40M. They crested 400M users by 2020.

That's the difference between growing your base and harvesting them.

Bluesky has in the neighborhood of 5-6M, by comparison.

[–] Garry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Between threads mastadon and bluesky, which one do you think will be the biggest in the next year? Or are they gonna all keep living in the shadow of Twitter

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Mastodon is more of a platform than a single service. Truth Social is, for instance, an insurance of Mastodon that hasn't been updated since 2022.

Or are they gonna all keep living in the shadow of Twitter

Practically speaking, the future is probably Threads/Facebook/IG. They seems to have encircled social media and strangled it.

But that's at a national/global scale. Outside of Lemmy style message boards, I don't really fuck with social media anymore.