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I mean... I'm pretty sure everyone who moved here and DIDN'T go over to Bluesky saw something like this coming. I remember chuckling about the false exclusivity of the invites. Gotta jerk the lure a bit to get the fish to bite.

@mastodonmigration I left BS (haha) for here full time about a month ago. After some entiled chud told me I was invalid because my "Theory of Victory ️" didn't align with his, I decided that probably wasn't the place for me. Super enjoying this spot though, it actually feels how the web used to in the late 90's. I've missed it...

@mastodonmigration So they are sitting on $100M since almost a year and did more or less nothing with it to grow their business? OK, I guess ...

@mastodonmigration as transparent as vantablack...

@TheGreatLlama @mastodonmigration I went there first, found out how horrible it is and sacked it off. It felt like it was just a differently flavoured echo chamber.

@jwildeboer yeah, raises some eyebrows especially since they've been in decline... wonder what they've been keeping the warchest for and if they'll start spending now with new leadership...

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@Zebadiah_Carter

I'm glad you're enjoying it here. There's a refreshing anti oligarchy & pro alt text vibe in the Fediverse.

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Kinda puts the CEO stepping down last week in a new light...

@srfirehorseart @mastodonmigration Thanks! The vibes have been overwhelmingly positive so far. I'm almost enjoying being online again

@mastodonmigration ID of the VC owners? You’ve been asking the question for a long time so I’m sure you’re gratified to have the answer

@lawyersgunsnmoney

It is just infuriating that such an underhanded and pretty transparent strategy should work so well. And it is not over by a long shot.

@mastodonmigration Thanks: odd I didn’t,t learn of this via its own site!

@srfirehorseart @Zebadiah_Carter @mastodonmigration Been on Mastodon since Nov 2022, when Musk bought Twitter/X. Joined BS too after Kamala lost but still prefer Mastodon: it’s usually my first point of call. I think of this place being about quality rather than quantity.

@mastodonmigration Yes. We’re dealing with true professionals at grift. It’s what they do. Bain especially and these other VCs in crypto. In contrast, you have the people who PT Barnum was talking about and then the internet “personalities” and “influencers” who care about nothing other than maintaining or building their brand by monetizing their followers. I blocked one of those people a couple of months ago because their behavior was horrible, starkly contradictoring their professed values.

@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online nooo not my blueskys

@JonChevreau

Are they talking about it over there or just meh

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Because they are anti-decentralization under the hood.

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BlueSky is a trap!

@Guillotine_Jones

Yup... it sure is. Posted the same message a year ago...

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Attached: 1 image Thanks @rolle@mementomori.social for posting this excellent warning. It's actually worse, much worse, than most people are aware. Bluesky is currently owned by VCs and crypto tech bros. And if you don't think they'd sell you down the river for $1, you are living in a fantasy land. See: Who Actually Owns Bluesky? https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/113918378013302932 #Bluesky

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@Guillotine_Jones

And this in March 2025...

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@Daojoan@mastodon.social In essence #Bluesky is a trap, a Potemkin village with an appealing facade, but behind the false exterior it's the same old centralized corporate walled garden (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0318034&utm_source=pr&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=plos006). Users now have the illusion of reach and freedom, but that can be denied at a moment's notice. Alternatively, it can be suppressed gradually, and they may not even know it. And all the while users are building their corporate prison, they are not engaged in fortifying a defensible public resource.

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