RE: mas.to/@Aubreader/116330793703…
This article is a must read.
An excerpt: “Why would anyone fund an Atmosphere project if #Bluesky, with $100 million in the bank, might ship a competing feature at any moment? Why would a founder bet their career on this ecosystem? The presentation didn't just hurt Graze. It made the entire ecosystem look unfundable.”
Why do I keep bringing up this topic?
Because #ATproto is often put in the same category as #ActivityPub (“open protocols yay”) but I strongly disagree with that stance
The Marshmallow Test - Bluesky signals it's willing to eat its young | Trezy.comtrezy.com/blog/the-marshmallow…
> At AtmosphereConf, Bluesky celebrated its community, then signaled it's willing to eat them alive. No context. No acknowledgment. I was in the room.
#Bluesky #Graze #ATmosphereConf
LumiWorx
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •After reading, it leaves me with concerns that are not dev related.
1. If there's xlarge $ infusions involved, it means profit will always be 1st, and fuck the tech. They will never care.
2. If they'll eat their young once - and don't wince about it - they WILL do it again and enjoy it more aggressively every time.
3. Once they have a taste of their own, they'll feed on other's 'outside the family'.
They want performing monkeys, not projects with merit.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to LumiWorx • • •Eugen Rochko
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron @lumiworx very nice to hear that Eugen.
Fellow member of team ActivityPub only 🙋🏻♀️
occult
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron @lumiworx
Company with +$100m in VC says one thing but does another. They're just doing the Apple "Sherlock" / Amazon "undercut and put the competition out of business" playbook.
Who's going to stop them?
I always hear about how BlueSky isn't the ATMosphere yet, time and again I see this bad behavior. They will dictate the path forward with their deep pockets.
They are incentivized to clone the good community ideas to increase their own value to pay back those VCs.
Mike Fraser
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •