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Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All

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8mo ago

Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All

slate.com /technology/2024/11/bluesky-app-twitter-exodus-x-elon-musk.html

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Cool so a replacement that also has crypto bros behind it. Isn't it fun how Mastodon doesn't even get mentioned in major media?
- Pretty sure the Washington post did a full spread about Mastodon like a year ago. Despite this, I still can’t find any real major media outlets on there. Or maybe they exist, but I feel the thing holding mastodon back is discovery.
  
  Major outlets did do some previously. Unfortunately, look at the active user count of Mastodon vs other social media outlets.
  These companies want to reach the most people as possible. Theres also an AskLemmy about barriers to adoption of the general public unfortunately that was answered quite well :/
  
  Fuck the algorithm. I'll take word of mouth any day. Forces me to crawl out of my hovel and be social once in a while. Lol.
- Huh? No crypto connection at bluesky.
  
  https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a
  This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.). To ensure we and our users benefit fully from this expertise, partner Kinjal Shah will join our board.
  So we'll see how long before the VC enshittification begins.
  Edit: do you have to be male to be a cryptobro? Cryptosis?
  https://www.blockchaincapital.com/team/kinjal-shah
  Prior to joining Blockchain Capital, Kinjal was a Senior Consulting Analyst at Fidelity Investments in Boston. At Fidelity, Kinjal was an integral part of the strategic team developing Fidelity’s blockchain initiatives, as well as the strategy behind new asset management products.
  Kinjal earned her B.S. in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University. She is a co-founder of Komorebi Collective, an investment DAO, funding female and non-binary founders in crypto.
- Isn’t Bluesky also Jack Doresy? So the same guy who was in charge of Twitter? It’s just Twitter 2.0. Bro got paid to have the same job lol
Musk got what he wanted out of it. Does it matter much now?

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