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Nose Ears #20: Proprietary Social Media

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Bluesky 5 years from now
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- I've had it happen several times, actually. Almost unilaterally it's due to the other party believing that open source means less secure.
  
  They never care to hear evidence otherwise, either.
  
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- uhm yeah, especially if you're young. all my friends laugh at me.
  
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- My brother and I both do some hobby digital design, and I get clowned on hard as fuck for using Gimp instead of Photoshop.
  
  That’s likely because Gimp stopped being good years ago and has a barely a fraction of the capabilities of photoshop. Not because it’s free. It’s basically photoshop circa 2012.
  
  I say this as an Adobe hater. I moved my department off premiere and into resolve. I can’t stand Adobe.
It’s all about polish. That’s how AOL chat rooms lured the masses from BBS, and AIM replaced IRC as the mainstream messaging service back in the late 90s.
- Meh, you can only polish a turd so much. I would like to point out that AIM no longer exists but IRC does.
  
  I think what you really mean is marketing. Also, I think you rely on a false equivalency that popular = better.
  
  Yes, but the majority of people that left AIM went to Friendster or MySpace.
  
  You and I obviously have the same preference or we’d be having this conversation on Reddit. I was really just referring to mass appeal versus quality.
- Except everything has been getting worse for a while now

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