Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

Bluesky is a nice experience, exactly the way other social media sites were five or ten or fifteen years ago, when they were still focusing on user acquisition and were still paying employee salaries with VC money.

If we get a few good years of Bluesky before it turns that's not bad, I'll take that, but I feel like the turn is inevitable, right?

I think that's the big question. I know jack about social media, but since I've joined Bluesky I've seen it go from 0 spam to a spammy post once or twice a week. It remains to be seen how moderation handles that with the large influx of users.

Have we had this period of such large players all trying to do the same thing in this segment of social media? We have Threads, X, Bluesky, Truth Social (I think?), and then the federated instances that I can think of.

Between Threads, Bluesky, and the federated ones we have three platforms where users can take their toys and leave pretty easily, and Threads tying into the federated platforms adds another way for people to move freely among platforms.

There's a chance it _all_ turns, but is it less inevitable since people can move?