hailey: there are a lot of very good takes on this already, and i don't have anything else to add to them. all I can say is that I have never been named part of the "very, very common crowd" but if that's what we are here, then I'm very very happy to be very very common with all of you!

there are a lot of very good takes on this already, and i don't have anything else to add to them. all I can say is that I have never been named part of the "very, very common crowd" but if that's what we are here, then I'm very very happy to be very very common with all of you!

Jack Dorsey's problem with Bluesky is...moderation. And the absence of Nazis. "they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it. That was the second moment I though, uh, nope." www.piratewires.com/p/interview-...

An Interview With Jack Dorseywww.piratewires.com jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack’s strategy for ending

of all the descriptors of bluesky, i think "common" is truly the last of the ones i'd use. more proof he never browsed the site ever

my immediate thought was “so the common crowd made sensual alf a thing?”

sensual alf, beans, clocks, where do we even start?

so many good reasons to be common and use this little app

we certainly have fun here

us common folk are famous for our love of folgers coffee ya know

holy shit how did i forget

i know paul puts bugs in the app i'd like to apologize for all the incest i accidentally added

real commonfolk never forget. you developer elites are out of touch

bet jack doesn’t even piss his dick

320 Chelsea's, Russian agents, dozens of cancelations for the same person (ahem), sundresses and posting through it, and a bracketed mineral tournament. That doesn't even scratch the surface.

THERE WAS A MINERAL TOURNAMENT?

MinCup. It's coming up later this year. I'll tag you

a serious bid for national public office

and for the bluesky board!

that’s right

Twitter never did "everybody is one of the trans women who run the community and takes turns being her"

I wanna ALF like common people I wanna do whatever common people do

And you eat a cat and screw Because there’s nothing else to do

that was always alf, you cowards!!

i honestly think jack may have accidentally said the quiet part out loud. he didn’t like the commoners, the working class, the builders, & the artists. he wanted to be around other tech moguls & oligarchs. so he went back to twitter. that’s his perogative, but it’s tacky to insult the bluesky team.

imagine having all that money & fame, but you’re still so unhappy that you keep looking for people to punch down at. it’s sad, he must live a pretty lonely life.

i mentioned in a comment somewhere that one of the reasons i like this platform is you get to see people like Scalzi or Gaiman (or Albini) actively discussing their ideas, riffing in the replies, engaging with the wider community - and yet for Dorsey that’s what’s wrong actually.

It's what you get when you seek validation from the wrong people - a surefire path to empty loneliness - since it's always conditional

i don't understand what he even wants out of social media other than a fascist echo chamber. oh wait i guess that's it then

he wanted this to be the crypto and nazi haven nostr is

nostr is certainly a haven alright

looks like crypto to me!

up uP UP

line go down aww sad

Mastodon reddit also trying to talk shit: bsky.app/profile/seko...

LMAO

Imagine being on Mastodon and complaining about bsky being barren and lacking discoverability.

hasn't mastodon's growth halted

Lmao.

Near as I can tell every tech bro is at heart just someone who wants to recreate the high school social structure but with them and their friends as the cool kids table

it's like last week someone posted a story here about a silicon valley billionaire who wants to turn it into a libertarian paradise and get rid of everyone who isn't a tech bro and how all the other billionaires think he's a visionary And that's where Jack is at basically

yeah jack stinks all right, but reading that article also made me think "jesus fucking christ what's wrong with this journalist"

“journalist” is a generous word for what the guy who interviewed Jack in this piece does as a job.

"Content creator" is probably closer.

they're almost as detached from reality as the techbros they interview

Some real Ayn Rand energy from ol' Jack, as far as overestimating his own exceptionalism when grouping the masses here.

If only they would fuck off to Galt’s Gulch and leave us alone, but they never do!!

If he wanted to be around people with too much money to spend, then he should have made it a place you have to spend too much money to get in to. Like, $10,000 a month.

outright displays of wealth are often a lil gauche for even new money though, he probably just wanted people to self-select. for a guy who made his wealth off of social media, it is sad how much Jack seems to dislike & misunderstand people.

I remember early days, there was some consternation about who was getting invite codes because it did not go how the founders expected. People invited people they liked to talk to, not people they wanted to network with and those are very different things.

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