alt Hacker NewsBlue sky is a social network, not social media.
A subtle but important distinction
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runako • yesterday at 7:20 PM
I am super curious about this distinction! Could you say more?
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AuthAuth • yesterday at 7:32 PM
Blueskys only difference is that it hasnt been enshitified yet.
Sorry but you sound exactly like that comic. "Our blessed homeland, their barbarous waters"
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/our-blessed-homeland-their-ba...
More seriously, I have seen similar exchanges many times on this social media where one party tries to exempt what is clearly a social media from his anti-social media agenda because he finds it personally more palatable. Usually he tries to exempt Reddit or HN but in this case it is Bluesky, which has the same features as Twitter ten years ago and is notorious for being always politically charged. It makes me think whatever criticisms he may have against social media are actually less about social media but about people he does not like being on social media. Like a driver complaining about all the other cars causing a congestion while he sits in his own car.
But fear not, because our blessed regulators (totally different from their tyrannical censors) will save us from the Big Bad. Never mind when Nepal blocked WhatsApp in its social media ban or when UK came after Wikipedia!