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Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Post by Devasta »

Bluesky is very strange, it's got potential to endure as a fairly popular social media site but it's kinda obvious that it's staff are contemptuous of their users.

The intended audience was meant to be blockchain weirdos with encyclopedic knowledge of the age of consent in every state, but instead they are stuck with a core userbase of Furries and LGBT people.

They don't know how to fix this, so they'll be stuck floundering for a while to come trying and failing to return to their core mission.

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#122

Post by CactusBlue »

baliex wrote: post #120
CactusBlue wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't need "open" networks (Digital Panopticons), we need private networks.

What are your thoughts on people self hosting their own websites and blogs instead of posting to big tech platforms? I’d say that extra openness was a good thing. I absolutely believe in privacy as well, and think ownership is important too.

We already could've done that before, just throw a HTML file on a HTTP server on a cheap VPS

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#123

Post by parl_match »

CactusBlue wrote: post #117
parl_match wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't like Jesse Singal's work or his political positions (he fucking sucks!), but this is hardly antagonistic except to maybe a small group of terminally online posters who take posting too seriously. Although, I guess that is the audience bluesky was targeting when they first started. So I guess I understand the criticism. Also, it is a very ironic demonstration of the pancakes/waffles meme. Interjecting into an…

I don't even think having Jesse Singal on the platform is the problem (like it or not, I believe that all beings must have the right to communicate); the problem here was the communication failure when communicating this decision to the userbase. They could have just reiterated their rules and left it at that; instead, they chose to mock their userbase, write them off as harassment, and banned users left and right, a…

> instead, they chose to mock their userbase

Doing the pancakes/waffles thing in the thread about pancakes/waffles is so fucking on the nose and demonstrates a complete lack of self awareness.

> They could have just reiterated their rules and left it at that; instead, they chose to mock their userbase, write them off as harassment, and banned users left and right, abusing their position in network to censor people at every layer of the protocol.

The more I dig into it, the more your one-sided whinging falls apart. I agree they could have handled it somewhat better, but I have very little sympathy for the terminally online bullshit that I'm seeing coming from the banned users.

Anyways, I feel we're apart on this issue. Feel free to have the last word if you wish.

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#124

Post by ChicagoDave »

arcalinea wrote: post #71

Jay here: this is a transition I've been working towards for awhile, and I'm looking forward to advancing the vision and ecosystem as CIO (Chief Innovation Officer). Toni has been an advisor to us for years, and I personally recruited him to take over as CEO while I focus on new projects within the company. It's an honor to have him on board to lead us into this next stage of growth.

If there was an Internet Technology hall of fame, your work with atproto would qualify.

One big innovation is to drag a large bank or Stripe on board to enable payments on the network.

Good luck!

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#125

Post by mossTechnician »

parl_match wrote: post #107
CactusBlue wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/waffles-eat-bluesky/

I don't like Jesse Singal's work or his political positions (he fucking sucks!), but this is hardly antagonistic except to maybe a small group of terminally online posters who take posting too seriously. Although, I guess that is the audience bluesky was targeting when they first started. So I guess I understand the criticism. Also, it is a very ironic demonstration of the pancakes/waffles meme. Interjecting into an…

The central complaint doesn't seem to be distaste, but rather the fact that he is uniquely privileged over other users, despite violating Bluesky's terms of service.[0]

[0]: https://www.change.org/p/bluesky-must-enforce-its-community-...

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#126

Post by rekmarks »

lich_king wrote: post #83
ghaff wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Bluesky is not just a shadow, it's on a pretty steady decline. Their DAU numbers are dropping every month. Which probably tells you something about the unspoken reason for this change.

No they’re not? https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#127

Post by parl_match »

mossTechnician wrote: post #125
parl_match wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't like Jesse Singal's work or his political positions (he fucking sucks!), but this is hardly antagonistic except to maybe a small group of terminally online posters who take posting too seriously. Although, I guess that is the audience bluesky was targeting when they first started. So I guess I understand the criticism. Also, it is a very ironic demonstration of the pancakes/waffles meme. Interjecting into an…

The central complaint doesn't seem to be distaste, but rather the fact that he is uniquely privileged over other users, despite violating Bluesky's terms of service.[0] [0]: https://www.change.org/p/bluesky-must-enforce-its-community-...

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Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#129

Post by rmccue »

orphea wrote: post #53
Legend2440 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was some WP drama between Automattic and the WP community a while back. Also the whole point of Bluesky is that they aren't supposed to be a big evil silicon valley tech company. But now you have a silicon-valley VC running the thing.

Matt M. was behind the drama from WordPress' side though. It looks like Toni Schneider left in 2014.

Toni was in fact the adult supervision brought in by Automattic’s board when the company was young and Matt was inexperienced.

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#130

Post by danabramov »

CactusBlue wrote: post #122
baliex wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are your thoughts on people self hosting their own websites and blogs instead of posting to big tech platforms? I’d say that extra openness was a good thing. I absolutely believe in privacy as well, and think ownership is important too.

We already could've done that before, just throw a HTML file on a HTTP server on a cheap VPS

That's pretty much what atproto is, except it's typed JSON rather than HTML, and HTTP+WebSockets to allow aggregation.

I wrote more about how it works here if you're curious: https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/

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