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by camgunz 1135 days ago
Bluesky's innovation over Twitter is to try and free itself from onerous regulation and scrutiny by governments. Their defense, over and over again, will be "just run 'govsky'", "just run 'chinasky'", "we can't censor you, no need to start Truth Social (lol), also no need to give us super burdensome regulatory requirements."

They're doing things a little backwards, building a gmail before there's a big SMTP network out there, but that's smart. The default state of this positioning now is that they'll slowly drain Twitter of their attention capital ( this is on purpose; their UX is the Twitter UX) so Elon has to respond somehow.
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Kye 1134 days ago
That's not an innovation. The EU itself and at least one EU country's government already have Mastodon instances. Quite a few organizations have as well. Truth Social is a fork of Mastodon.

Where is Bluesky's innovation?

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camgunz 1134 days ago
"Innovation over Twitter" is what I said.

I think ActivityPub and Mastodon are alright, but I think a thing that looks and behaves more like Twitter will be more successful at succeeding it than something that doesn't.

I get that Mastodon people are salty about Bluesky. Personally I was hoping Elon Musk buying Twitter would be taking the Jenga piece that collapses the social media tower. But this is how nerds vs capitalists goes, unfortunately, and my evidence is all the walled gardens that sprung up in the fertile pre-web-2.0 internet.

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Kye 1133 days ago
Being the second to do something (without significant improvement) isn't what I could consider innovative by any definition I know. Mastodon already did the things you listed. Can you clarify what you mean? It sounds like you expect Bluesky to do what Mastodon already did, but better somehow.
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camgunz 1133 days ago
I think the miscommunication here is that you think I'm talking about Mastodon at all.

Edit: cool music btw! I like the sophistication of your percussion.

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