"I’m not on either service [Meta's Chains or BlueSky]. I’m honored that people would like me to join their conversational spaces, and I’m grateful to the people who offered me signup codes for Bluesky, but I have no plans to join either, and for a very simple reason.
I don’t trust ’em."
#CoryDoctorow, August 2023
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again
My thoughts exactly. A year later, Chains and BlueSky are kind of federating, sort if, if you squint just right. But I still don't trust 'em.
"Enshittification isn’t merely the result of greed or foolishness — it is the inevitable consequence of a captive userbase.
A service that isn’t federated is unfit for purpose, and the managers who decided not to federate it demonstrate by their acts that they are not worthy of our trust."
#CoryDoctorow, August 2023
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again
@lwriemen
> I wish people would add content warnings to posts that contain links to Threads, Bluesky, Twitter, etc
Or just ... not post links to them at all? Like any sociopath or narcissist, giving those DataFarmers' platforms attention just encourages them ...