weirdest thing about bluesky is that screenshots i see are virtually indistinguishable from twitter screenshots. only tell is the username format. don't know why you would do this.
- they/she
- jkap.io/
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not anymore lol
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"don't know why you would do this" ; seems pretty clear to me, at least. cloooone
the design being lifted directly from twitter and the jpg of a generic blown-out sky as the app icon and splash screen really sell the "scam website" feel
as someone who used to work for a dorsey company, ...the guy really likes decentralized things that seem like a blockchain. is absolutely convinced they are a panacea to all the worlds' problems, with almost religious conviction. i don't even think its an intentional grift, i think he genuinely is just completely out of touch with reality. it's weird.
anyway. hence spinning out a separate company to make twitter-but-make-it-decentralized-ish in 2021, i guess. idfk
oh hey i also used to work for a dorsey company! probably the same one! that was actually where i was immediately prior to assc lmao
omg! it was my first job out of college; i worked for square/block from 2015-2022 (until i completely burned out / had gotten my trans surgeries covered, lol), so you might have seen my ldap (gmalmquist) around. was mostly doing infra stuff
that's honestly encouraging to hear? i would love to do something that doesn't feel evil, im so tired of building machines for capitalism, and it's easy to get stuck feeling like everything is terrible x)
im guessing it has something to do with how jack dorsey wanted twitter to one day be a client for bluesky prior to him stepping down as CEO and pushing for the elon sale. maybe they didn't realize they were gonna become a twitter competitor until AFTER they had already built a good chunk of their app and protocol around one day being twitter compatible, and then decided to just roll with it since "people who just want twitter... AGAIN" was the audience they were targeting anyways
The thing I keep seeing is people want a Twitter alternative because they still want “Twitter” and, like. I did that for 12 years of my life. That’s enough, you know?
There's a lot of people LARPing in the low-fantasy world where Twitter was great until last October...