Scripting News: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 Podcast : Let's use feeds to hook together pieces of the twittersphere. # I theorized why Jack Dorsey is disappointed with Bluesky on Bluesky . I did the same on Threads and heard people say ugly personal things about Dorsey. This really pissed me off, because he's a human being who made a large contribution to the technology we use, and I think his heart has been in the right place. Nobody is purely good or bad. If my theory is right about why Dorsey is disappointed, it's a valid point, Bluesky was started with its prime mission as creating a distributed system. The more they dig in on nice-to-have features that have nothing to do with being distributed, the more they go down the same path as Twitter did. Jack was openly talking about turning Twitter into a developer platform as early as 2007. Had they realized the system he talked about, basically global object storage with real financial backing, we'd be much further alo