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Why Not Bluesky


As a dangerous and evil man drives people away from Xitter, many stories are talking up Bluesky as the destination for the diaspora. This piece explains why I kind of like Bluesky but, for the moment, have no intention of moving my online social life away from the Fediverse.

If you have a deployment that can speak the languages of IMAP and SMTP and the many anti-spam tools, you are de facto part of the global email social network. · My bet for the future (and I think it’s the only one with a chance) is a global protocol-based conversation with many thousands of individual service providers, many of which aren’t profit-oriented businesses. Read more · On the Fediverse you can follow a hashtag and I’m subscribed to #Bluesky, which means a whole lot of smart, passionate writing on the subject has been coming across my radar.

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