{"id":10915,"date":"2025-02-12T07:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T07:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=10915"},"modified":"2025-02-12T07:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T07:33:37","slug":"you-can-now-follow-this-blog-on-bluesky-if-thats-something-you-want-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/technology\/you-can-now-follow-this-blog-on-bluesky-if-thats-something-you-want-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now follow this blog on Bluesky, if that&#8217;s something you want to do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bluesky_media_kit_banner_4-1024x532.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bluesky_media_kit_banner_4-1024x532.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bluesky_media_kit_banner_4-300x156.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bluesky_media_kit_banner_4-768x399.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bluesky_media_kit_banner_4-1536x798.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bluesky_media_kit_banner_4-2048x1064.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog now has <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mrericsir.com\" title=\"\">a feed on Bluesky<\/a> in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/feed\/\" title=\"\">the RSS feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I&#8217;m being honest I lost interest in social media when it started filling up with fascist hate groups, but Bluesky promises to be different &#8212; or at least more open source &#8212; so I&#8217;m crossing my fingers and hoping this works out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much has been written about the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enshittification\" title=\"\">&#8220;enshittification,&#8221;<\/a> where existing products actively become worse in the name of making a quick dollar. The most cited examples are Facebook, which used to be a way for college students to connect but is now filled with conspiracies from your drunk uncle, or Google Search which used to be a simple and powerful search engine but is now a scrambled nest of ads and AI gibberish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think a good example of enshittification is a bicycle. Let&#8217;s say you bought a decent bike. Then one day you wake up and before you can ride it to work, you have to install something called Bicycle+ on your phone that costs $18 a month or the tires won&#8217;t stay inflated. Well now you have a bicycle that not only sucks but you can&#8217;t even give it away. Worse, you can&#8217;t sue the company that made it because the app&#8217;s terms and conditions (that you didn&#8217;t read) included an arbitration agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personally I&#8217;m not overly optimistic that Bluesky will be any different than Facebook and Twitter, but it is <em>new<\/em>, and in the world where capitalism slowly strangles the life out of everything, perhaps &#8220;new&#8221; is all we have left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog now has a feed on Bluesky in addition to the RSS feed. 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