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i've said it a few times already but i'll repeat. bluesky was never the place to migrate to from twitter. it had the same warning signs written all over it. it was just a matter of time. never trust a place that is fully free with zero monetization. because you become stats for the highest bidder.

tumblr did this same exact thing right before getting sold. they make it really good for us to build up a userbase. userbase is very shiny, investors and buyers like seeing a service with a big userbase. but oh no! theres scary stuff here "make scary stuff go away before we buy pls and thanks"

I only came here because this is where most of the artists I was following went. But even most of them either just posted both here and twitter, or went back to twitter entirely. I think the only real alternative is Mastodon, which, of course, has its own issues. But at least it's not censorship.

Though I'm probably just yelling into the void here. I know that's on me, I never really did anything to grow my popularity or anything. But it does suck to have good insights into how things work but go largely unheard when shit hits the fan repeatedly. Ah well. I could use less distractions. ByeBS

And sorry, want to clarify since I said "never trust a place that's fully free" and then later proposed Mastodon. The difference is that Bsky is a service and Mastodon is software. Free software is fine. We have a ton of it on our computers. If you can host it yourself, it's usually okay.

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