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Is Bluesky Billionaire-Proof? (The Intercept) (theintercept.com)

submitted 1 year ago by da_peda@feddit.de to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Right in the article they are discussing adding ads and premium subscriptions features in the future.

I can already see the timeline for BlueSky over the next few years:

Receive startup venture capital
Provide a useful, user-friendly service
Grow a userbase <-- (you are here)
Add a few more useful features, continue growing
Dominate the market, run at a loss
Add less useful features like ads, premium features, subscriptions
People complain, but most are too hooked in to leave
The useful features added earlier start getting removed, content gets sanitized <-- (Imgur, Reddit is here)
Big fundraising campaign, IPO, or bought out by big corp or the melon husk of the day.
Content quality goes way downhill, actively making life harder for users, volunteers and staff, bots rampant, more stupid features, monetization monetization monetization <-- (Twitter is here)
People leave for another useful, user-friendly service

[–] JillyB@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In the article, they outline how Blue sky is resistant to that path through the PBLLC structure and ability to move your account when you don't like the web site.

Time will tell if this model works in practice but it could be interesting as an alternative to Twitter without the usability issues normally associated with federation.

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