Yes, although the protocol is already open, which I think mitigates the risk slightly. Bluesky is also organized as a public benefit corp, which mitigates the risk almost not at all but is interesting. If Bluesky begins to go the way of Twitter, other corporations or entities can make interoperable replacements easily. That was not so for Twitter.

But in general, yes. This is the same song but a different verse. People have been so blinded by the brokenness of the internet as it is now that an interoperable protocol doesn’t make any sense to them.

I just wish this was a native function of one or both platforms. What a feather in Bluesky’s cap to say that they’re interoperable with Threads, for instance.

In order to get a similar experience to Twitter, you need to follow a lot more people on Mastodon than you did on Twitter, because you never get that algorithmic backfill (and, in fairness, because there are fewer people using it).

Probably talk about it with employees like adults and try to work something out, rather than throwing their weight around?

I’ve worked on both types of teams, and the ones that have reasonable discussions about staffing problems are always healthier in other ways too. The ones where management just hands down edicts from on high and expects people to roll over and take it always end up being dysfunctional across the board.

That’s fair, and that 0.1% always become legendary among the workforce.

Even if it does preserve your momentum, with some really good trigonometry, you could teleport to a location that would result in that momentum landing you softly and exactly at the top of a cliff. If you can redirect the momentum, it can be any cliff. If you can’t, you’ll have to choose a cliff in another part of the world so that gravity burns off all your inertia at just the right time.

• There are a lot of people on it, it doesn’t feel empty like I have often found Mastadon.

Mastodon isn’t empty. People just have to follow folks to actually get any content. Now, Bluesky definitely does the onboarding better in that regard, but this almost certainly comes down to people not knowing that they have to follow accounts to get content.

I’m going to see this comment in my history in a year and be like “…huh?”

“Just” terrorism.

Like reading? OP has employable skills.

Bro thinks rent and investments make money from the magical money fairy

This is true, but you can only grab hold of that power collectively. There is no way to pull on this lever solo.

Well definitely firing somebody should help your staffing problems.

A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Well, this month in particular…

This happened ages ago, didn’t it? Am I missing something new?

Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations

Uh oh. Am I going to have to agree with the worst person in the world?

so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to ‘make games great again’

Oh whew. He’s got the worst possible solution to the problem. The world is still correctly aligned.

I just had a couple of comments moderated because of this rule, and as a result discovered that this rule existed.

THANK YOU so much. I have never been so happy to have comments removed.

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