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Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Jaz's stats are sus, use this instead: https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/index.html

Ah, I didn't realize the link I shared was Jaz's (it was shared in another comment), but they look similarly sideways over the past 6 months, with a noticeable bump in Dec / Jan.

These specific stats are likely not as bad, I mainly take issue with the "user" count they promote.

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Strong agreement, though I would say it looks to have reached a stable level for now. I've found several subcommunities that I can get good info from. I'm curious how the '26 election cycle will affect things, already seeing increase political discourse.

I don't think it's quite stable. The external events that caused waves of new users to arrive from X are getting rare and bringing in fewer. When those aren't happening it's been a slow, gradual decline.

Perhaps "leveled off" is a better phrase. There seems to be a base level of users, much like Mastodon.

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> user-antagonistic communication could you provide some examples? i didn't really see this, but maybe i just missed it

There aren't really any, the user you're replying to is just disappointed the campaign to ban users for no (on platform, or really any) reason was not successful.

Yeah, that's the vibe I got after reading more into it.

I respect the CEO for laughing at a melodramatic harassment campaign. The last thing those outrage addicts need is coddling & corporate babytalk.

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Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.#Judgme... Allow me introduce you to the inception of enshittification

The section you linked to says the decision was non-binding, and the next section includes multiple quotes disputing the idea that such a legal requirement exists.

I suggest you do your own research on this split. You’re incorrect unfortunately.

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No there isnt.

Yes true. B Corps allow the board to weigh things besides shareholder value. That's a meaningful distinction. The idea is that shareholder primacy isn't compatible with everything every corporation wants to do, so having a board that's protected from lawsuits when they put things above shareholders is a useful thing and B Corps offer that. The board can, for example, reject a "superior" takeover bid without fear of l…

No GoodGuy B Corp would still need to fear lawsuits in that situation and PBC or not they would be able rejecting that decision. If they get sued there is a good chance they can defend the decision.

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What are you talking about? X is full of this shit, how can you claim that this gets censored when it is EVERYWHERE?

Show the class where you talked about it on X and it didn't get censored.

Go to X and use the search function and you find a lot of posts about it, even with more than 100k views and >10k likes.

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So ATProto is about to die, in other words. It was already wayyy too complex. And this? Yeah, they (you? sorry) really need to just give it up.

The vast majority of people don't want their activity broadcast out to the internet for anyone to grab. Permissioned / private data is non negotiable for any social media tech trying to gain mass adoption.

I would say the opposite. If you don't want your activity public, don't put it on the Internet.

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> There's lots of "politically incorrect" things which is a symptom of low filtration. Politically incorrect things might be a symptom of low filtration on almost any other site, but not one run by Elon Musk. He has a clear agenda and is not shy about putting his finger on the scale at X. It's so blatant and well documented that it's almost hard to imagine you could be commenting in good faith.

>Politically incorrect things might be a symptom of low filtration on almost any other site, Why would that change anything? I've always found political incorrectness to be a symptom of free speech. >but not one run by Elon Musk. Why would that be any different? Same symptom. Same free speech as far as I can tell. >He has a clear agenda What's the agenda? >is not shy about putting his finger on the scale at X. What i…

Sorry, I don't find it very interesting to debate whether the sky is blue. We can agree to disagree.

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The vast majority of people don't want their activity broadcast out to the internet for anyone to grab. Permissioned / private data is non negotiable for any social media tech trying to gain mass adoption.

I would say the opposite. If you don't want your activity public, don't put it on the Internet.

How do you think about Google Docs? I consider that "on the internet" since it is not on my computer. Same for private channels and threads in Discord.

Also, ATProto can be much more than social media tech, more like a plug-n-play distributed system

https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

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