Meanwhile at Meta HQ

QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz · 9 days ago

Meanwhile at Meta HQ

Kangae_Hishiryo · 3 days ago

Bluesky not only IS BAD, but is EVIL itself.

Proofs:

Governance Scandals

Bluesky’s CEO Meltdown: How Leadership Continues to Fail Its Most Marginalized Users — Details the October 2025 CEO crisis, bans of critics, and systemic leadership failures.
Bluesky’s Growing Pains (NBC News) — Covers governance hurdles including government censorship, user revolt, and leadership decisions.
Inside the Trump Administration’s Bluesky Invasion (WIRED) — The political controversy over the Trump admin’s coordinated Bluesky launch and the platform’s governance response.

Financial Transparency Scandals

EU Says Bluesky Is Violating Information Disclosure Rules (Reuters) — European Commission accused Bluesky of failing to disclose user counts and legal establishment.
Bluesky Issues Its First Transparency Report (TechCrunch) — First-ever report revealing a fivefold increase in legal requests and 54% jump in moderation reports.
Bluesky Under Fire as EU Demands Transparency on User Data (iPhone in Canada) — EU scrutiny over Bluesky’s failure to publish DSA-mandated transparency data.

Moderation Scandals

Bluesky’s Moderation Woes, Investor Pushback, and User Backlash (Fortune) — The 2023 N-word username crisis that triggered a poster’s strike and forced a CEO apology.
Bluesky Suspended Various Trans Authors Over Anti-J.K. Rowling Posts (Them) — Multiple trans authors penalized for posts wishing harm on Rowling, sparking accusations of selective enforcement.
Controversy Brews on Bluesky Over Anti-Trans Journalist (Advocate) — The Jesse Singal saga, a 25,000+ signature petition, and Bluesky’s refusal to act.

Protocol (AT Protocol) Scandals

Banning Controversy Reveals Bluesky’s Federation Isn’t There Yet (Flux Community) — A user banned across all AT Protocol apps, exposing that the federated model doesn’t actually protect users.
We Need to Protect the Protocol That Runs Bluesky (MIT Technology Review) — Warns that no credible exit exists and the protocol is hostage to one VC-funded company.
Protocol Developer Explains How Decentralized Bluesky Really Is (Gigazine) — ActivityPub designer Christine Lemar Weber calls AT Protocol “a centralized system that relies on centralized authority.”
Is Bluesky’s “Decentralization” Real? (Leaflet) — Argues the architecture is “decentralization theater” structurally identical to Twitter/X.
Be Wary of Bluesky (Kevin Åberg Kultalahti) — “The open protocol is actually a centralization flywheel” — nearly all data sits on Bluesky’s servers.
“Decentralization” and Erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere (Nexus of Privacy) — Critiques the protocol’s surveillance-friendly architecture and choke points that guarantee de-facto centralization.

Iammetheone@thelemmy.club · 2 days ago

Is there an alternative one then?

Kangae_Hishiryo · 2 days ago

Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, GoToSocial, Misskey, Sharkey…

These are all based in the same protocol that makes this place work: ActivityPub.

While this is the Threadiverse (Lemmy, Mbin, Kbin, PieFed, etc.), these other are the more general Fediverse, although more dedicated to microblogging.

If you want macrobloggin/traditional social media, you have Friendica, Diaspora*, Aarkvard and some other similar ones.

If you want forums, there are some as Discourse or NodeBB.

If you want video, there is PeerTube.

If you want music, there is Funkwhale.

If you want traditional blogging and/or publishing, Plume or WriteFreely.

There are AP-based software for almost all needs, if not all needs.

Kangae_Hishiryo · 3 days ago

The worst part:

Malicious Advertising / Astroturfing

Twitter rival Bluesky raises $8 million in venture funding (Axios) — The seed round led by Neo, revealing the VC backing behind the “grassroots” narrative.
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board (TechCrunch) — Dorsey’s exit; he later told Mike Solana Bluesky had become “a crap company run by VCs that wasn’t even really decentralized.”
Bluesky and its user community struggle with it being a VC-backed company (Nostr) — Detailed analysis of the $15M Series A led by Blockchain Capital and the “enshittification” backlash.
Escaping to BlueSky? Check the business model, first (Reason Street) — Dorsey “resigned from the board soon after, arguing that VC funding risks repeating the same mistakes that constrained Twitter.”
Bluesky is being valued at around $700M in new funding round (Hacker News discussion) — Community reaction: “It’ll then need to pay it back, probably by enshittifying their product in order to extract the money out of its users.”
How is Bluesky funded? (Reddit) — “They’re VC funded, and the people doing it aren’t publicly disclosed” — user frustration over opacity around beneficial owners.