A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis.
Bluesky civil war shows free speech is harder than it looks
Last week, a joke familiar from X circulated on rival platform Bluesky: “(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??” It was obviously a jab at the moral intensity that now seems to define the site, and indeed much of the rest of the social media landscape. On most platforms such a [...]Read More...
Why Not Bluesky
As a dangerous and evil man drives people away from Xitter, many stories are talking up Bluesky as the destination for the diaspora. This piece explains why I kind of like Bluesky but, for the moment, have no intention of moving my online social life away from the Fediverse.
Bluesky is what Tumblr was
Over the past several months I have watched carefully as leftists have migrated over to Bluesky from X/twitter.
Stop Begging. Start Building
As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this article isn’t really about Bluesky. The writer Jerusalem Demsas wants you to stay on Tw…
Solidar
Bluesky enhanced with Matrix for E2EE DMs and censorship resilience. Be yourself in your community on Bluesky, while building solidarity across communities for collective action.
Is Bluesky dying?
An attempt to untangle a few different arguments around the future of Bluesky – if it has one
Solidarity Social
Bluesky enhanced with Matrix for E2EE DMs and censorship resilience. Be yourself in your community on Bluesky, while building solidarity across communities for collective action.
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A Note from Bee (Lore Drop) - Babesky Blog
Regarding the history and future of NSFW BlueSky
ATSMS Group Chat: End-to-End Encryption Without the Lock-In
blog.boscolo.coThis is a really insightful thread that points out some of the fundamental issues with the Bluesky community vs Bluesky as a decentralized protocol. This thread is also why I think it's a really smart move for Bluesky to appeal to fandoms... (cont.)
B. Prendergast
One of the Atmosphere’s big bets is that the next 100m users will be won by making decentralised tech + data sovereignty more compelling. I’m less than convinced. We may be solving problems only builders care about, while overlooking problems that actually make ordinary people choose a network.
i think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.
