I could not help but post this long comment about this post
praising Bluesky:
Certainly, everyone should get off Twitter.
It should be noted, however, Twitter was a largely unregulated space before Musk which allowed Nazis to find each other and for Trump to and spread information incite hatred.
Despite him breaking Twitter’s TOS several times, he was never removed. Twitter was a big part of Trump’s rise (along with lazy journalists who couldn’t stop feeding him attention). Jack Dorsey both presided over the early 2010’s good times at Twitter and also made the ultimate call to keep racists and other kinds of bigots on, citing his version of free speech, which was much like Musk’s.
He is motivated by power and perceived shareholder value. Once he has fattened up Bluesky with users’ free effort and goodwill, he’s very likely to turn the crank on it to cash in at the cost of a nice conversion space and/or the health of a democracy.
Also via
John Naughton:
If history has a lesson, it is that we don’t learn from it.”
Stephen Bush, FT, 19/20 October, 2024