Not only is #BlueSky extremely not billionaire-proof, neither is #Fediverse. Nothing is safe from billionaires. But bsky is as vulnerable to hostile takeover as Twitter was, more than fedi.
@thomasjwebb Fediverse cant be fully taken over by any one company, person, or group like the others can though.
Immune to billionaires? No.
Immune to billionaire takeover and control of the entire platform? Absolutely.
@BeAware yeah I see it as more resiliant to being hijacked than bluesky but by no means invincible. It's promising that more and more small businesses are adopting fediverse. I'm less worried that Meta could control the whole thing now than I was a year ago.
@thomasjwebb how would they be able to control 30,000+ individually owned websites? How would anyone be able to control that?🤔
@BeAware @thomasjwebb It's like saying someone can control the Internet. Fun fact: ActivityPub (the protocol that drives Mastodon and other Fediverse apps) is an official W3C recommended standard and W3C is lead by (drumroll) who other than the creator of the World Wide Web itself, sir Tim Berners-Lee. This is why I trust more to truly user driven social web Fediverse rather than corporate driven Bluesky.
@rolle honestly I think you are taking a step backwards by personalizing it like that.
That kind of personalizing of things often ends up driving the centralization that takes systems down.
Heck I think it means BlueSky is LESS susceptible to those issues that it's not tied to a particular identity like the way you describe.
