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Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All (slate.com)
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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Bluesky is mit licensed, if it goes bad what's to stop a fork? Once there's interop between the protocols will it matter at all?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There are a million ways open platforms can be undermined, especially when serious money stands to be gained from it. See basically all of human history as exhibit A...

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

Can you give a specific example of how bluesky could be?

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Not 100% sure but I don't think anything would stop either a fork or a new app that uses the same protocol.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 19 hours ago

I really don't see how it could matter tbh

I think lemmy should get atproto support too.