@glyph it does not look very sustainable to meeeeee

Bluesky: we have $15m to spend

Mastodon: we have a stuffed animal

reply guys in my mentions: well actually the fediverse is WAY bigger than just mastodon, you utter fuck

Bluesky has raised a $15m series A

This just in time for the weekend, so we’ll be treated to endless tirades about the satanic rites of venture capital

and why the One True Way of building a pure and decent social platform is a grumpy dude paid a terrible wage to ignore user feedback

Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.

Bluesky (bsky.social)

Imagine being such a gigantic asshole you make 2024 DHH seem like the serene and reasonable one
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/113307555690501934

@jenniferplusplus yeah so much of what sucks is some version of the cartoon of shoving the stick into the bike wheel

Lack of cultural dynamism has many roots but they all lead back to poor platform stewardship

I think my deep sigh is rooted at watching the impotence of it all.

The height of Mastodon’s wailing is matched only by its ineffectiveness. Nothing is particularly changed by any of this gnashing of teeth.

AI marches on, ad tech reaches deeper, no one notices anything.

Twitter changed the fortunes of politicians and corporations, often in the space of hours and days.

Mastodon is Abe Simpson yelling at a cloud.

@mattly entirely reasonable!

For more than a decade I used TweetBot to understand the world.

The ongoing feed of Happening was like an extension of consciousness.

So reflexively I reach for it.

But instead of a feed reflecting broad experiences, current events, and friendships…

I’m getting a temporally displaced spray of like Slashdot comments, with a few friends interspersed in between.

Poor nutrition.

The last few weeks I’ve been picking at a scab:

I get so little from my mastodon feed.

This is less a reflection of the individuals I follow than it is the larger discourse reflected by the many retoots.

Everyday folks are foaming at the mouth on shit I could not get less of a fuck about. I cannot imagine dedicating any recurring synaptic activity to Mozilla’s clown car, but it’s constant here.

So why do I come back? I think the answer is: the reanimated corpse of TweetBot, Ivory.

We have abandoned an entire generation to predators and scams

and they have no means of opting out because every service and relationship runs through the treacherous computer
https://infosec.exchange/@douglevin/113266385222353147