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@brembs @pluralistic

No billionaires, weak lock-in, no algorithm, no ads. And editing.

@brembs @pluralistic

Not difficult to imagine Bluesky (and Threads) going the way of Twitter - an algorithmic swing to the right - shortly before the next elections in the US. Once people have been locked in, start boiling those frogs again.

@BorisBarbour @pluralistic

Precisely.
Why people with enough neurons to form a synapse who leave X go to BlueSky will forever remain a mystery to me.

@brembs @BorisBarbour @pluralistic I'm on Bluesky. The big benefit it has now over mastodon is the sheer number of people on it. Interactions seem good so far and real sense of community developing. Point taken that it is privately owned but by all accounts the CEO seems like a decent person. You are right that that could change in time but for now, I'm happy it's drawing people away from twitter

@cian @BorisBarbour @pluralistic

Really? That's it? To me, this sounds a lot like:

"sure, there is no water in the Namib either, but at least it's not the Sahara! Doesn't that count as an improvement? Oh and now I have a lot of thirsty people with me in the Namib, when I would have to drink water with so much fewer people outside of deserts."

Sorry, but I can't make heads nor tail of this. My interest to go over there and interact with people whose minds operate like this is quite low.

@cian @BorisBarbour @pluralistic

I study learning and memory (in invertebrate animals). I guess part of it is my bewilderment as to how many triels some people need to actually learn something

Then again, when email came, had there been only GMail initially, some people would probably still today struggle to understand what they would need a private and a work email for.

@brembs@mastodon.social @cian@mstdn.science @BorisBarbour@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Even when gMail finally came about, there had already been HotMail, Yahoo and others. And, there were already plenty of people that understood the value of having a "real" email account and a "give this address to web-sites" (spam-sink) email address.

That said, there's still a non-trivial number of people that use work email for non-work stuff …and are still getting fired when they do stuff that's too inappropriate for the domain-owners to ignore. So, there's still people today that fail to understand the need for private and work email accounts.

@ferricoxide @pluralistic @BorisBarbour @cian

Sad but true!

@bovaz @cian @BorisBarbour @pluralistic

You have a point