The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky - phillipjreese.com
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As users flee from Twitter/X, two visions of social media's future compete: Mastodon's community-controlled network versus Bluesky's venture-backed promises. The difference isn't just technical—it's about whether we'll finally break free from the profit-driven cycle that has degraded every major social platform.
  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Open source code doesn’t mean open API though. Bluesky seems to have made a whole thing out of their technical architecture, and I get the arguments that it’s centralized in practice, but wouldn’t it mean basically scrapping the whole thing to lock down third party clients? Even if that didn’t mean anything I think multiclients could be a good idea anyway, if people were using those and there was a Reddit situation, some portion of users would want to stay with the same clients rather than using whatever proprietary app they try to push.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      23 days ago

      That’s exactly my point. Reddit is still shit, and you can’t exactly fork the data, because they’ve locked down the API.

      Bluesky could do the exact same thing.