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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Post by fritzo »

jrm4 wrote: post #32

Doomed from the start. It took me a while to figure this out, but ATProto is generally a bad idea; maybe even worse than Twitter. Which is to say, it provides a more robust model for your (true) information and data to be exploited by others than even the Twitter model. The Mastodon-slash-email model that relies on individual servers is better because decentralization is safer -- Those models bear more genuine "abili…

The community has voted for convenience over privacy, and twitter and bluesky have won over mastodon. You're right, but people don't actually care about privacy

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Post by Lammy »

qcoret wrote: post #48
rvz wrote: post #25

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.

This is false, he has been on Bluesky since 2024. https://bsky.app/profile/toni.bsky.team

Last activity 17 days ago, 23 days ago, 3 months ago, 3 months ago, 4 months ago

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Post by rchaud »

amadeuspagel wrote: post #7

> 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?

"values-driven" is the TedTalk-ified equivalent of MBA-speak like "synergy". Meaningless and unmeasurable, but sounds good in a pitch deck.

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Post by verdverm »

pfraze wrote: post #43
alephnerd wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You are wrong about pretty much all of that, including your assumed reasoning for why this is happening. Jay chose to change her role so she could do deeper work on the technology. That's it.

The issue is that no one really believes the corporate speak any more. Bluesky does not get a pass on this, re: VC funding

I have concerns about one piece of messaging I've seen lately, working on a writeup, stay tuned

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Post by ghaff »

fritzo wrote: post #61
jrm4 wrote: post #32

Doomed from the start. It took me a while to figure this out, but ATProto is generally a bad idea; maybe even worse than Twitter. Which is to say, it provides a more robust model for your (true) information and data to be exploited by others than even the Twitter model. The Mastodon-slash-email model that relies on individual servers is better because decentralization is safer -- Those models bear more genuine "abili…

The community has voted for convenience over privacy, and twitter and bluesky have won over mastodon. You're right, but people don't actually care about privacy

As someone who was once an avid twitter user, my sense is that Mastodon--after a somewhat hopeful start just never gained the network momentum. Bluesky came closest to Twitter's old reach but is still something of a shadow of the old Twitter (as Twitter/X is these days as well).
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