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Huh, I guess betting on Mastodon winning was the right bet.
Threads being the biggest Mastodon instance and federating with mastodon.social (Meta signed contracts with instance maintainers to do so) and the other 3 largest instances (Pawoo, baragg (d_o_t) net, and mstdn (d-o-t) jp) taking up more that >70% of the total users using it?
That doesn't sound good.
The CEO sold all of us out and was the only one that made real money on Mastodon.
Sounds like a firing / soft firing / come to jesus moment about the viability of the business...
Sounds like a firing / soft firing / come to jesus moment about the viability of the business...
Pretty much. It's fun seeing idealists get slapped by reality. If you want to protect your ideals you better know how to fight for them using the same tactics as your competitors. Learning how to build a board that is in your favor, making alliances with less than pure players if needed, and being ruthlessly competitive allows an ideal to become reality.
Now I am down to file sharing, email and functions related to my job, a little youtube - but trying to ween myself of that. The internet as I knew it is dead.
Post from new CEO Toni Schneider https://toni.org/2026/03/09/coming-off-the-bench-for-bluesky...
There's only a single non-platitude in the entire letter, but luckily it provides us with a wealth of information about what's coming next: > I’ve been a partner at True Ventures for many years
This 'growth' comes with a lot of negative things and rarely lots of good things.
> and proved that a values-driven social network could thrive at scale. How could a social network, or anything humans create, not be values-driven?
Translation: VCs and the board pushed Jay out. The interim CEO doesn't even use Bluesky himself, so at this point you might as well move to Threads.
> and proved that a values-driven social network could thrive at scale. How could a social network, or anything humans create, not be values-driven?
Seriously? If a company is publicly traded, they're legally required to prioritize shareholder value, unless they're a benefit corp or something with multiple bottom lines. I suppose you could call it values-driven to drive up the bottom line, but that's not normally what people mean.
I was enjoying having one social network not run by horrid people. Maybe it's time to go back to IRC or something.