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Their wordsWhy does email stay reasonably healthy? Because nobody owns it. Anyone on any server can communicate with anyone else on any other. Nobody can buy it and make it a vehicle for their politics.
Their wordsMigration is probably Mastodon’s most important feature. It’s why no billionaire can buy it and no corporation can enshittify it.
Their wordsHere’s an axiom: An ad-supported service can’t have sex-positive or explicit content.
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Commercial social-media feed algorithms have one goal only: maximize engagement and thus revenue.
Their wordsThe algorithms that commercial social-media services use to sort your feed have one goal only: Maximize engagement and thus revenue. They have no concern for quality or morality, and have been widely condemned by people who think about this stuff.
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Their wordsSecond, I think it’s inevitable that Bluesky-the-company will indeed go sour.
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