Great piece on BlueSky and enshittification by @pluralistic.
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Great piece on BlueSky and enshittification by @pluralistic. “I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will.”
Read more: https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/bluesky-enshittification
Cory’s piece: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/
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I'm a Cory fan.
But if his message is he can't leave X, I'm calling bunk.
He has a newsletter, he's in the Fediverse. The customers who he depends on - folks like me who buy his books and what not - will follow him.
If we're going to have a better world for the children we have to make uncomfortable changes. Stop eating anything with a face or a mother, divest from fascists like Musk, consume way less.
Anything else is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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@spinbackwards he doesn’t talk about Twitter/X in his piece at all, how is that his message?
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@molly0xfff @pluralistic tbh if they're a POSSE-doer and that's the message... it would probably be good to get a mention of that in that post or any post it links to.
As much as I enjoy Mastodon, it's really not any better with regards to "ability to enshittify and take your profile" because accounts are linked to sites, and portability is cooperative instead of controlled by the account-owner. Any host that disables that cooperation locks you in just as much as twitter/blusky/email/etc.
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@molly0xfff @pluralistic POSSE is an excellent escape from all that and I think it's the only viable answer currently, so I do agree with the posts in general. But it's not presenting that route, probably to the detriment of anyone looking to escape the cycle. It's just saying "never again, try federated systems".
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@groxx @pluralistic he does. ctrl-f “my publishing process...”
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groxxreplied to Molly White last edited by [email protected]
@molly0xfff @pluralistic ah, yep, I missed clicking through to that link for some reason. Thanks!
I think my point still mostly stands tho. It's at the end, in a very large linked post, well after the main link's text claims Mastodon (activity pub / federation in general) solves the issue... when "the issue" is "account portability that can't be revoked when enshittified" which is like 95% not true. Though it has a decent chance to be true eventually, which puts it way ahead of most options.
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ケレムさん 🏴☠️ :unverified:replied to Molly White last edited by
@molly0xfff @pluralistic oh wow I just realized this Molly White is the Molly White behind Web3 Is Going Great website. I had wonderful time looking at the pages of it during the stupid NFT boom.
I was sad before because I was out of the loop as a suffering artist and promises was cunning... "all artists will finally get rich" etc. In the end we saw what happened. But during of all that craze Molly's website helped me to get through. -
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@keremgo hi! :blobfoxheartcute:
