Now Bluesky's Jay Graber is simply lying.
“If a billionaire came in and bought Bluesky and took it over, or I decided tomorrow to change things in a way that people didn’t really like, then they could fork off and go on to other applications.”
https://observer.com/2025/03/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-wants-world-without-caesars/
Of course, this makes absolutely no sense, but tech media dutifully just prints it.
What does "fork off and go on to other applications" mean?
What is it she is even saying?
Getting really tired of this gaslighting BS.
Let's get real. If a billionaire comes in and buys #Bluesky, the 30 million users who have fled there from other toxic platforms will be stuck on the billionaire Bluesky toxic platform. Sure, they can "fork off" and make a Mastodon account on the Fediverse, but that's their only option.
This 'billionaire proof' marketing campaign of hers is not only disingenuous, it is false advertising, and should give everyone pause.
If Bluesky become a toxic billionnaire owned platform, the users will not flock to the fediverse, they will flock to whatever is the new "good" billionnaire owned platform that promise not to be "like the others"
This is partly because the Fediverse is such a pain in the butt. I like Mastodon; I'm active on two instances every day. But boy is all this bridging and fencing annoying.
That's why Bluesky (where I have a third account) has surpassed Mastodon, in spite of the fact like Twitter, they refuse to let us fix typos, which irks the crap out of me.
Bridging and fencing?
@mastodonmigration @RustyRing @kingu "bridging and fencing" they don't enjoy fedi like it is and want a enshittifiable platform to interact with fedi
@Kuniti_shino @mastodonmigration @kingu
...which is the attitude that's keeping Mastodon down. Contempt for the goddam humans.