Neat protocol, shame about the users.
Also the VC-backed funding for this infrastructure will run out eventually. It's not self-sustaining, and Bluesky have no viable route to profitability.
Neat protocol, shame about the users.
Also the VC-backed funding for this infrastructure will run out eventually. It's not self-sustaining, and Bluesky have no viable route to profitability.
[Bluesky proves that for social media, no matter what your technology stack, capabilities, or mission, if your community is awful, growth will never follow.](https://blueskyfeeds.com/bluesky-user-growth?t=3m)
Twitter seemed to have no issue growing so that doesn't seem right.
During its growth phase I really don't think it was anywhere near as toxic has Bluesky is now.
> no matter what your technology stack, capabilities
We haven't had many of the good sets of these to get any proof
> shame about the users
I use Bluesky regularly and have a fine experience. Yes, there’s an irritating minority of users. But so goes any social network, Twitter especially. At least the owners of Bluesky aren’t espousing Great Replacement Theory…
I also have a fine experience, but only by switching to the For You feed full-time and mostly sticking to my compsci-academic-tech-programming neck of the woods. Minority or not, the users GP mentions are so obnoxious that it affects the 'vibe' of the platform as a whole. Look up any "Top Posts" tracker/feed/whatever. No matter that I even (mostly) resonate with the underlying political leanings, I find the tone pretty dreadful.
Of course, the same applies to whatever remains of Twitter now.
Yeah, it's nothing against the platform itself, it just happened to get a population boost from dissatisfied people. It seems so many of them are just miserable and there to create a feedback loop of negativity.
> Of course, the same applies to whatever remains of Twitter now.
I think that’s the key of it for me. Usually this criticism of Bluesky users is part of a justification to stay on Twitter. When the exact same problem exists on there, just with a different type of user.