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The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

Or: Why Threads is not it.

I talked about this on the Dot Social podcast with Flipboard’s CEO Mike McCue and ProPublica’s Ben Werdmuller, both of whom are extremely bullish on the future of the decentralized web, and they both told me that they think in the long run having a big fish like Threads investing in the fediverse will be good. Mastodon and ActivityPub still heavily overindexes on people talking about tech and nerdy internet topics (said lovingly), and it’s hard to find active discussion about, say, sports, pop culture, celebrities, etc. Threads still feels to me like a gas leak social media network with a busted algorithm that over indexes on extremely annoying middle managers in Silicon Valley who dogpile on anyone who thinks that maybe social media network that suppresses links and political content, has horrible and uneven content moderation, and is owned by the same company that is paying an army of posters in developing nations to spam their flagship platform with busted AI is maybe not the platform to bet on.

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