"if you try leaving twitter, you leave your friend circle behind". it's an obvious read and why he specifically shouts out mastodon, as federation means he can keep being connected to his readers from any point on the network.
what he criticizes in bsky is that, at this point in time, bsky is still the middleman, much like twitter, and does not have the kind of federation mastodon provides, when there's no central entity controlling the users, their connections, their interactions.
If Cory’s contention here is that using Mastodon _lowers_ the possibility of being cut off from your readers for arbitrary reasons, I’m not even sure what to say about that other than “uh okay.”
he's not on bluesky because he equivocates corporate ownership copyright with individual creator copyright, and every artist and writer here told him to fuck off over it
he's a petulant dork who's staggeringly incurious about tech he thinks is neat
Maybe I'm just lucky in that I have a job that does not depend on a social media presence, but I never joined Bluesky thinking it was going to last forever.
It'll be fun until it isn't and then I'll leave. Just like ICQ and Usenet and Orkut and Google Plus and all the other trash fires of history.
Hey, I'm hanging out here, and on Mastodon, and I think I'll start doing more at https://Micro.blog. I avoid making the kind of platform investment Cory's talking about, though. My most significant investment of time and energy is at https://well.com, where I've been hanging out for over three decades.
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(Before you ask, I run a masto node.)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
he's a petulant dork who's staggeringly incurious about tech he thinks is neat
It'll be fun until it isn't and then I'll leave. Just like ICQ and Usenet and Orkut and Google Plus and all the other trash fires of history.