Why Not BlueskyHere’s the thing. Whatever you think of capitalism, the evidence is overwhelming: Social networks with a single proprietor have trouble with long-term survival, and those do survive have trouble with user-experience quality: see Enshittification. ¶
The evidence is also perfectly clear that it doesn’t have to be this way. The original social network, email, is now into its sixth decade of vigorous life. It ain’t perfect but it is essential, and not in any serious danger.
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Their team is much larger than Mastodon’s and on October 24th they announced they’d received $15M in funding, which should buy them at least a year.
But that isn’t entirely good news. The firm that led the investment is seriously sketchy, with strong MAGA and cryptocurrency connections.
Let’s think: What happened to Twitter the various times it needed to please investors?