This is good. I know Mastodon would be better, but right now I'm just happy that public agencies are moving away from that far-right platform owned by a fascist asshole who gained global political power because of money...
- I wonder if Bluesky will also be like that someday.
  
  Some day? Probably. But if it isn't for now, I'll take it as an improvement for now
  
  Exactly. It's not perfect, but it's an improvement. They might have said something equally bad like "we are moving to facebook".
  We need visibility to such institutions because the younger generation is not interested in parsing a website or RSS feed for information and news (this is a sad fact) but rather parse social media. Far right, mis/disinformation will be there for everyone to see. We need scientific and public institutions to be visible.
  I think enshittification of "traditional" software already gave enough initial visibility for fediverse and the word "decentralization" that when bluesky goes to shit it's already less of a new thing to move to - let's say - mastodon hosted by EU or whatever.
  Edit: added more to the second paragraph.
  
  Its impossible for it to not go to shit. The only way to prevent this is proper federation/account migration, because with those any server will just instantly die from users leaving when they start going bad. Lock-in is the biggest reason for everything wrong with the internet.
  
  I believe the official instance already got most of the people who would want to use Bluesky in it.
  And even if people did start self hosting their own instances, I am not sure if they could handle the traffic.
  
  Of course it will. That's why BlueSky is just a stepping stone.
  
  Yes. Once a large enough concentration of users is achieved, the network effect kicks in and the users are locked in.
  With that amount of users, it becomes a juicy target for businesses who colonize the place to milk said users. That's assuming the original founders haven't already been kicked out and replaced by suits who just invite businesses, influencers, creators, propagandist and so on in and charge them for the privilege. That locks in businesses.
  With users and business both locked in, squeeze them for an they're worth until the pain gets too big and the users leave for another platform. Go to step 1.

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