[rickrollin]

> The web. Email. RSS feeds. XMPP chats. What all these technologies had in common is they allowed people to freely interact and create content, without a single intermediary.

> Sign up for the Bluesky private beta.

Welp this just seems counterintuitive.

[everfree]

Nothing seems counterintuitive to me about kicking off an open product by first doing a limited private beta.

[sneak]

All of those listed technologies got cancelled, shut down, or deprioritized due to rampant spam.

[altair222]

when? where? I still use xmpp and email, albeit less of RSS.