Those numbers are small in the grand scheme of things, but for a newer and open source community developed project those are absurd numbers, ESPECIALLY because it isn’t a flash in the pan, many of those users call the fediverse home and use it daily.

It’s interesting what a bubble lemmy users are in. There is a reason it is not taking off.

Yeah, we don’t have millions in VC or private equity funding to dump into marketing and to smooze with the tech press enough for them to actually do their jobs as journalists and cover the fediverse with a modicum more of nuance then “Mastodon is just for nerds, even the Mastodon CEO says so! Use Bluesky, it is corporate and its marketing promises what the fediverse already has so in that sense they are equivalent and lets be honest that means you should use Bluesky.”

The code isn’t available for the parts that aren’t open source? Just because a component of a system is open source doesn’t mean the entire system can be called open source.

That is a dangerous conflation to make in public discourse about this as it warps the conversation in artificial ways.

Make NO mistake if the entire system was actually open source they would have no way to lucratively monetize bluesky, and that is precisely what they will do.

The CEO of Bluesky has gone on record saying they haven’t ruled out monetizing through forcing ads on a system. Do you not understand that is functionally impossible to force ads on a fully open source system?

how can you be so stunningly naive

The entire appview layer is proprietary in practice and in spirit.

Nah the mistake radical leftists made was not to support Bloomberg, that was surely where went wrong!!!

The dems would rather lose to republicans than change. They will eat your protest vote.

Fine, watch as we dismantle and destroy the DNC and build a structure in its place that responds to and respects the voices of its members, especially the vulnerable and oppressed.

We aren’t fucking around and no amount of money or corporate media spin is going to stop us.

Your move DNC

If this were true, Biden wouldn’t have pulled out of Afghanistan.

Leftists respect and remember this, especially given how the mainstream media went full warhawk on Biden for actually doing it. If only Biden had got his head out of his old racist ass and used his power to stop the Palestinian Genocide.

Hey, me here from the Genocide Joe caucus, I voted for Harris, Trump is a despicable pathetic genocidal idiot…and Genocide Joe disgustingly facilitated the conditions for a genocide to be expanded upon by Trump.

Also while saying all those things I was chewing gum and walking, heap praise on me for doing the impossible.

We do, some of us are disgusted by it, some of us love it (we love fascism here in the US of A), it is just centrist status quo managers that pretend or actually believe that the goalposts aren’t all completely determined in their location and manner by the rightwing and the rich, subject to erratic and sudden unrationalized major changes.

Leftists who held up nonvoting as some kind of magic bullet for gaza definitely seem like they are dumber than rocks for thinking nonvoting is the same as strategic voting.

Hey I see you got one one too, nice strawman you got there

*an incomplete subset of Bluesky is opensource

Twitter

Until there’s overt advertising its unlikely to enshittify the normal way.

Trust me we will be deep into that territory so fast it is going to make your head spin.

Wikipedia has outlived most of “web2.0” because its funded by donations and run by volunteers.

Private equity and VC funding can’t directly buy Wikipedia and dissect it because it is an at least somewhat functional non-profit organization. That is the only reason.

then the Bluesky exodus will really have a solid reason to try to understand why decentralisation is so important…

or people will have lost the ability to imagine alternative and better places…

…which is where we come in to make sure they don’t forget!

It is the path of least resistance because it just goes in circles

Maybe the argument is that it “will be”, but at the moment it is not

Hey, I have a couch you should buy, it isn’t comfy right now but trust me, im a random stranger and I promise you on my word that after you buy it one day soon I will come back and fix it up so it is the comfiest couch ever!

Also maybe like somebody could make a non-profit to add features to the couch my business already sold customers on with marketing hype!

Time for the fediverse to reflect on this lamentable failure to capture the zeitgeist

We haven’t failed, the wise ones among us understand companies like bluesky grow cancerously, and that cancerous growth is neither desirable nor emulatable (especially in pace) in a healthy system.

This is such a half-assed dog and pony show.

They have millions in investment, why do they need someone else to fund this? Why don’t the bluesky team directly and materially support them?

This is a core aspect of Bluesky’s marketing and they asking other volunteers to help make them rich.

Bluesky will follow the same enshittification trajectory Twitter did, it is just the beginning of the rollercoaster where the coaster is slowly brought up to the top to be launched… and everyone is exclaiming “wow I haven’t even thrown up yet!” as if that was any indicator of how much they were about to throw up…

At least those are videos of a real videogame.

I find it incredibly insulting how my algorithm is always giving me ads and thinly veiled ads for predatory casinos wearing the mutilated echos of popcap games (pre EA). It equally insults my intelligence and the artistry that actually earns the prestige of successful, critically acclaimed games, and it is a disgusting, pathetic way to earn a living.