In his current newsletter, Tom Scott talks about people playing around with Bluesky’s “fire hose of data” then ultimately comes to this conclusion:
The world’s communication seems to have moved on to group chats and Discords and other private groups; the days of “tell everything to everyone, what could go wrong” are past, and perhaps that’s for the best.
And I feel this is pretty much right. A lot of people are comparing Bluesky to early Twitter, but early Twitter was more than a decade ago and online communication has drastically changed since then–in most ways, for the worst. I think it’s great people are having fun and enjoying Bluesky, but we would all be wise to remember what has happened with bot armies, scams and the increased polarization of “open” online communities. Scott further makes the point by linking to Hank Green’s video on bots disagreeing with everything:
