Imagine launching and growing a popular social media platform. Getting a huge buyout for it. Watching it burn down to the ground, scorching everything that was good and fun about it. And then, a few years, later starting again with a thing that looks and works just like what you started with, and having people flock to it out of joyful relief.
This particular strand of the metaverse is definitely a weird one.
But Dorsey gots billions for his trouble. Now he’s gone again. What next?
@LnzyHou Oh, I'm slow on the uptake there; I didn't realise he was out of BlueSky already.
I don't know what's next for him, and I don't particularly care. That's probably unfortunate timing on his part -- leaving before it lived into its potential, *and* making overly sunny comments about the platform that continues to flail on his way out.
I'm happy that throngs can finally see the dead-bird site for what it is -- including that it is intentionally addictive -- and can find relief from it.
@LnzyHou I'm not convinced it won't be, but what's happening on there right now is like what I experienced when I first joined Twitter.
(Same with Threads at the moment.)
And when I joined Twitter, people kept saying it already wasn't like the "good old days."
People are detoxing. It'll be weird for a while.
BlueSky's terms and conditions are pretty comprehensive, and they're actively and specifically enforced. That's a whole new experience for some folks. ;-)
I declined my invite over year ago. I didn’t sign up on waiting list as indicated.
Not interested in shadow TW with the associated lack of security. I spend too much time on CoSo as it is. Living my life on social media is no life at all.
@LnzyHou Yep, we all have limited amounts of time and energy.
I look for where people are curious and open. X-Twitter stopped being that a lot time ago, and the net effect on our culture was really, really bad.
I also won't be on these other platforms much, most likely. But I just find it reassuring that people's appetite for megalomaniacal rage-baiting isn't, y'know, infinite. 🙂
@sumpnlikefaith
Moving the dregs of X (folks still addicted to chaos & hate) only changes the address. Now BlueSky will be X.2
So glad I’m exempt from that shitshow.