{"id":12503,"date":"2024-11-24T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T14:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=12503"},"modified":"2024-11-24T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T14:29:36","slug":"bluesky-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/bluesky-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluesky Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>I have spent the last day or two playing with Bluesky and I believe that it has potential, At it\u2019s base it\u2019s like Mastodon, but with less anarchic user base, and fewer trolls. This could be because I haven\u2019t spent weeks using it yet. <\/p>\n<p>Threads has a good community and good community tools but it\u2019s part of the Facebook empire and within a few weeks adverts will appear and that will drastically feel the look and feel of the social network. <\/p>\n<p>With the arrival of ads, we will have more noise and it will require more scrolling to get anything engaging. I don\u2019t want to be on a social network that exists for ads. I want a social network that is self-sustaning, based on rational decisions. <\/p>\n<p>I expected Flickr to implode a decade ago but it\u2019s still around. I believe that the key to its success is that it\u2019s a small social network by and for photographers, where people can share their photos, without noise, cult of personality and more. It has reasonable follower numbers so it\u2019s cheaper, and lighter to run than social media giants. <\/p>\n<p>As I write this I see that Bsky already has series A funding in progress, which to me is a warning sign not to depend on the site too deeply. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to announce that we\u2019ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Amir Shevat of Darkmode, co-creator of Kubernetes Joe Beda, and others.\u201d. That\u2019s 15 million with 13 million users at the time, and now 20+ million users.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.social\/about\/blog\/10-24-2024-series-a\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I agree with the idealism of Bluesky. I don\u2019t trust that it will be able to keep to its ideals due to who its investors are and what they stand for, I believe Bluesky will compromise on its ideals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>I have spent the last day or two playing with Bluesky and I believe that it has potential, At it\u2019s base it\u2019s like Mastodon, but with less anarchic user base, and fewer trolls. This could be because I haven\u2019t spent weeks using it yet. 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