Bluesky really sitting here with all the other apps shitting the bed and hopefully dying all around us. Please be smart about this, bluesky. I beg of you. Don't be like them, you have a chance here, we're all rooting for you, buddy.

If the other apps fall, Bluesky will become an advertising oasis, I fear. It’s still a business after all. They’ll go the path of “money” if more avenues open.

PS, I know bsky can be scraped; the devs said as much. Everything can and will be scraped. Still, in a potential future where hopefully general scraping will be ruled illegal, there is a big difference between giving them your right through TOS like Tumblr/insta/twitter and making it 'legal' or not.

Just imagining you saying this, with total sincerity, but behind you is a shadowy crowd of silhouettes cracking their knuckles, baseball bats on shoulders, etc.

The CEO's last job was with a crypto company, so I don't have much long-term hope

nah no company is a buddy, ain’t trusting them, but i’ll hang here until i can’t anymore

Skeet kindly, peoples. Add to the stream. Wit, not cruelty. Do some research and vet your rant. Credit creators and have a ball.

I wish I could save this post for the future when bsky goes public for some reason and we're all lumped into a dataset for pennies on the dollar.

"we're all rooting for you, buddy," THIS.

Now that doctorow has laid out the path of enshittification so clearly, perhaps some companies will develop models designed to avoid it...? Maybe?

BlueSky's been shitting the bed just fine all this time