BlueSky is still very much in the first stage of the enshitification cycle, namely: being good to their users. But the business model for commercial social media platforms is well established now, and it involves locking users in and then abusing them at a rate slowly enough that offboarding still feels like it’s not worth it.

People embracing a tool that has been used to openly manipulate them in the past because this time it will be different is a story of abuse that plays out over and over again until the victim is buried in a shallow grave.

Well, we shall see, but I have to admit that my expectations are exceedingly low.

Tech companies have promised us a _lot_ of things. But as soon as they have a captive user base, things inevitably get worse.

So is the code open and transparent? Could we examine how exactly the algorithm makes its choices?