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Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All (slate.com)
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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 27 points 5 months ago

Ha ha ha, yeah, sure. Bluesky won't defeat xitter, at best it'll just be the "next thing" once xitter finally finishes getting rid of most of its users, which I guess will take more than 4 years from now.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The great thing about BlueSky is how under-the-radar its flown for the last few years. Virtually no advertising. No legions of bot accounts spamming with invites and generic attention baiting posts. No |>u33y N |3io blowing up my mentions. No enshittification, because its just a primitive clone of the original Bird Site.

The more popular it gets, the less likely that'll last. BlueSky won't defeat Twitter until it becomes Twitter.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My issue with BS is it took VC money from crypto bros.

What do we think will happen when they come looking for their returns on investment?

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

I don't understand how those two things are distinct.

[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

I guess they don't consider it bluesky defeating twitter if twitter is commiting suicide. Sounds like pedantry to me.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The key factor in Digg’s demise was a flawed design that was too easily abused by users. Digg had no controls over user verification, so individuals could game the system by creating multiple accounts to artificially inflate the number of votes for their own content. Because Digg displayed content in order of popularity, most visitors saw and voted only on content that was already popular. This system created a vicious cycle in which a small number of dedicated users could push their own content to the front page and thereby gain more followers, allowing them to more easily repeat the process. As Digg grew, so too did its problems related to power-hungry users cheating and gaining undue influence over content.

Sounds like the same problem that every centralized social media ecosystem suffers from. The big difference between Digg and Reddit was that Reddit successfully monetized the "push me to the front of the queue" algorithm rather than engineering around it.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 4 points 5 months ago

Digg did commit suicide. I was there for it.

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

The Digg bar is why I stopped using Digg

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 months ago

It’ll only defeat X if corporations and specifically media and sports entities start using it.

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