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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

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768 points cyndunlop | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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bitmasher9 ◴[19 Feb 25 18:28 UTC] No.43105534[source]▶
It’s really impressive how well Bluesky is performing. It really feels like a throwback to older social media platforms with its simplicity and lack of dark-patterns. I’m concerned that all the great work on the platform, protocol, etc won’t shine in the long term as they eventually need to find a revenue source.
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autobodie ◴[19 Feb 25 18:37 UTC] No.43105649[source]▶
Absolutely. The profit motive is the root of most evil. It is a shame that so many are trained to believe it is the only motive available.
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1. pessimizer ◴[19 Feb 25 21:22 UTC] No.43107868[source]▶
Bluesky is a private for-profit company that has taken $37M in venture capital.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mik...

> That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company. This is not a protocol that’s truly decentralized. It’s another app. It’s another app that’s just kind of following in Twitter’s footsteps, but for a different part of the population.

> Everything we wanted around decentralization, everything we wanted in terms of an open source protocol, suddenly became a company with VCs and a board. That’s not what I wanted, that’s not what I intended to help create.