aight my one real #Bluesky take is that any celebration of its culture is premature: it is largely defined by early yet powerless movers in a vacuum right now.
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aight my one real #Bluesky take is that any celebration of its culture is premature: it is largely defined by early yet powerless movers in a vacuum right now. That could change at any time. Already the site has a growing population of "own teh libs" type right-wing puppets doing the same things people hated about Twitter.
The site's reliance on third-party labeling service to "hide content that you don't want to see!" out of a pool of Free Speech Soup reads to me like punting on responsibility, yet the fact that it's not meaningfully decentralized means the current operators have an outsized influence on what Bluesky *is*. Users can't do shit to shape a site: mods and owners set and enforce policy, and that sets the tone.
In short: until they ban a Tim Pool or an Andy Ngo, I withhold my judgment on whether the site is actually "better than Twitter" or merely "in the interval before it too becomes Twitter"
