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QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzM to Memes@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 6 days ago

Meanwhile at Meta HQ

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Meanwhile at Meta HQ

QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzM to Memes@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 6 days ago
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    The best time to delete social media apps was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

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      At least when it comes to Meta, I have nothing to delete. In 2021 I deleted my WhatsApp and in 2022 deleted my Facebook account that wasn’t used for over a year anyways.

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      The best time to switch to the Fediverse was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

      Seriously, I’ve made the following replacements:

      • Twitter to Mastodon
      • Facebook to Friendica (though this isn’t as active as the other Fedi platforms)
      • Goodreads (never had it) to Bookwyrm
      • Tiktok (only used it once, no account) to Loops
      • Instagram to Pixelfed
      • Discord to Fluxer (Revolt/Stoat fucking sucks)
      • Edit: WhatsApp to Signal/Delta Chat
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        FYI Fluxer isn’t federated. What you’re looking for is Matrix/XMPP.

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          Also, Fluxer is closed sourced.

          Yeah, they state that they’ll open their code, but that’s since centuries ago, and I see it coming, they’ll use something as the FSL.

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          Yeah, I am using Matrix with the Sable client and it is really good

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            I’m using it with Extera Next myself, and is really good, yeah. Matrix >>> XMPP.

            I’d like to see any Nheko Chat fork with better security (I’m in Plasma so I want more stack consistency, also more aestethical consistency), but well, that seems hard to find right now (fuck off Etke.cc, Komai is just shitty slopware).

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        which one is ICQ

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          Signal I guess? Sorta? But absolutely not really?

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        I opt for blue sky which is not bad

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          Bluesky not only IS BAD, but is EVIL itself.

          Proofs:

          Governance Scandals

          1. 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.
          2. Bluesky’s Growing Pains (NBC News) — Covers governance hurdles including government censorship, user revolt, and leadership decisions.
          3. 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

          1. EU Says Bluesky Is Violating Information Disclosure Rules (Reuters) — European Commission accused Bluesky of failing to disclose user counts and legal establishment.
          2. Bluesky Issues Its First Transparency Report (TechCrunch) — First-ever report revealing a fivefold increase in legal requests and 54% jump in moderation reports.
          3. 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

          1. 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.
          2. 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.
          3. 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

          1. 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.
          2. 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.
          3. 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.”
          4. Is Bluesky’s “Decentralization” Real? (Leaflet) — Argues the architecture is “decentralization theater” structurally identical to Twitter/X.
          5. Be Wary of Bluesky (Kevin Åberg Kultalahti) — “The open protocol is actually a centralization flywheel” — nearly all data sits on Bluesky’s servers.
          6. “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.
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            The worst part:

            Malicious Advertising / Astroturfing

            1. Twitter rival Bluesky raises $8 million in venture funding (Axios) — The seed round led by Neo, revealing the VC backing behind the “grassroots” narrative.
            2. 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.”
            3. 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.
            4. 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.”
            5. 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.”
            6. 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.

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