The masses will either eventually migrate to ActivityPub, or have their entire digital lives consumed by oligarchs. It’s just a fight between finally deciding that maybe ease-of-use doesn’t mean “good,” and losing every ounce of your identity and ability to express your thoughts and feelings.

And that’s the kicker. Bluesky can never be meaningfully decentralized.

Ah yes, “free our feeds” where millionaire VCs are asking for donations

Yeah, that’s true. If they’re not using names, then there’s not a whole lot you can do. And blocking IPs is impossible, because they use different IPs constantly.

But!

With my post, and your suggestions, this is the “something” that’s better than doing absolutely nothing

I tried it one time, and it’s just as “slop” as the rest of generative AI. CEOs have no taste

Copyright is a pain in the ass, but Sam Altman is a bigger pain in the ass. Send him to prison and let him rot. Then put his tears in a cup and I’ll drink them

Looks even worse than the one they had before