"News" is the killer app for a social media platform.
People in media need a platform that will allow them to drive readers to their work.
Platforms that throttle outbound links are at a disadvantage.
Which is why @bsky.app is likely to end up the dominant platform. 1/4
People in media need a platform that will allow them to drive readers to their work.
Platforms that throttle outbound links are at a disadvantage.
Which is why @bsky.app is likely to end up the dominant platform. 1/4
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Eventually everything else—sports twitter, black twitter, film twitter—will follow. 2/4
And without journalists, a platform can't do news. 3/4
And once *everyone* normal is off, then anyone who stays is going to carry a stigma.
That will be a primary objective for the fascists...stifling the output of real news.
People look at the numbers switching to BSky, and say something like "it's nice, but small compared to, say, Threads."
This mistake is they think every person moving has the same weight. It's the heavy ones moving here.
Everyone else will follow.