What are we doing here folks? We all flocked to Bluesky because it resembled what we used love — Twitter from the 2010s, but with the hope that it would in the end be different.
The Bluesky team has promised to federate/decentralize for a while now, with nothing coming of it. Only empty promises (so far).
So many people have flocked to Bluesky because it’s familiar, but they don’t realize that it’s still centralized and can be taken advantage of like the other centralized platforms.
People constantly are telling me that Mastodon and the Fediverse is too hard to wrap their heads around, yet they all use email. It’s really not any different.
Admittedly I’m on Bluesky and participate from time to time. But what concerns me is that people will get so tied into it that they won’t leave if it goes south and we’ll be back to where we are with Twitter/X.
That being said, it doesn’t have to be this way. It can move beyond the centralized server. Hopefully people like Mark Cuban and other influential users will help push it in that direction.
What do you think?
