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1. Michael Bishop 3 min later

   I’d start a blog.

   1. Zach Leatherman 14 min later

      excuse me, you have a blog

      1. Michael Bishop 45 min later

         And I am working through as I type how to parse my BS rss into notes on that there blog. Original idea was just parse at build, now leaning towards an action that checks for new posts and commits markdown files. Better archiving & a cheat for a gui posting interface.

         1. Michael Bishop 1 hr later

            If I was normal I’d just set up at micro.blog

2. Griffin Wiebel 4 min later

   bsky.app/profile/pfra...

   1. Zach Leatherman 11 min later

      Nice to see someone talking about it but *whew* that’s a lot of pieces someone will have to set up, develop, and maintain (for just the server piece)

      1. Griffin Wiebel 39 min later

         For sure. Not trying to invalidate your concern, just seems this place could overall use hope where needed today.

         1. Zach Leatherman 40 min later

            Very fair

3. Kuldar 5 min later

   Trying to think what's the most vulnerable aspect of it. The protocol is open and technically anyone can fork the app and spin up their own version, right?

   I guess loosing access to the Bluesky hosted Personal Data Server would be the main risk?

   1. Zach Leatherman 12 min later

      The connections are the value—it’s rarely the content. Where’s the escape hatch for the connections?

      1. Michael Bishop 50 min later

         Webmentions

4. Chris Ferdinandi 9 min later

   It's inevitable, despite what a lot of folks want to believe

   1. Zach Leatherman 13 min later

      100%—lucy is holding the football, let’s kick it

      1. Chris Ferdinandi 14 min later

         TBF, I think Mastodon has a similar danger profile, despite being disparate instances. It's still mostly controlled by one person who manages the largest and most popular instances on the platform.

         1. Zach Leatherman 15 min later

            Naw—I could block mastodon.social today and still get a ton of value out of Mastodon generally

5. Bryan Robinson 14 min later

   There's always a critical mass in the "engagement economy" and that will always make it come crashing down :(

   It's not valuable enough when it's small, but to get big enough to truly be valuable to us, takes it VERY close to that critical mass

   1. Zach Leatherman 17 min later

      I mean, that’s what we’re used to but it doesn’t have to be this way

      1. Bryan Robinson 19 min later

         Dismantling late-stage capitalism would work... though that might be extreme for keeping my social feed intact (though it has merits for other reasons, too)

6. Brian LeRoux 53 min later

   some kind of federation perhaps

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      the perhapsiverse

      1. Brian LeRoux 1 hr later

         I definitely don't see how the incentives create a different outcome

         1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

            for Bluesky? yeah—absolutely. We’ll repeat the same Twitter song and dance (and that’s the best case scenario for this place)

            1. Brian LeRoux 1 hr later

               by the time its obvious everyone will act like it was always obvious and the gas lighting open washers will have moved on and cashed out (but i'm not cynical ! love this place !!!1!)

               1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

                  💜 we’ve seen (and remember) too much 😅

                  1. Brian LeRoux 1 hr later

                     there's gotta be a name for this phenomenon. it's like the Cassandra curse but not really a prediction so much as history annoyingly repeating itself in an industry which grows so fast it almost completely refreshes every 3 years.

7. AyooOo 🎃 1 hr later

   Finally somebody said it

8. Tobias Fedder 2 hr later

   Well, we leave. Like when Musk or a Musk-type buys a country, everyone just gives up and leaves, right? Right?

9. Dmitrii Konasov 16 hr later

   If Bluesky will be truly decentralized by that moment, what will he actually buy?