Do even academics not understand the network effect?

Lately, I’m seeing lots of follow-worthy people posting that it’s much nicer over at #BlueSky than it’s here at #Mastodon, persuading us to move to BlueSky too. Sure, I believe that.

But BlueSky is just another (VC-funded) platform owned by capitalists.

If people stayed at Mastodon, we could avoid the forming of the network effect that made it so hard to escape Twitter/X.

A strange notion to escape X just to hop into BlueSky‘s lap instead.