Vraiment un très très intéressant article...

Merci Nicolas Hoizey pour la découverte !

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Network effects create powerful inertia. To maintain control of their lead, the incumbent network just needs to evolve its product at a reasonable pace. In retrospect, the deaths of MySpace and Digg were completely avoidable.

I enjoy Bluesky the product, but I have reservations about Bluesky the venture-backed, for-profit corporation. For example, it was formed by cryptocurrency people and maintains deep ties to the cryptocurrency world. Their initial investors include Protocol Labs, who created a failed, slow, and broken distributed filesystem that only succeeded in pumping its companion token, FileCoin. It peaked around $191, and now trades around $5. We owe a great big "Thank You" to the FileCoin bag holders who helped fund Bluesky.

Bluesky claims to be billionaire proof, which is either hopelessly naive or deliberately smarmy. Claims that their platform is open and decentralized are mostly bullshit. Nothing prevents the company from cutting off access to the network, just like Twitter did to third-party clients, and the option of spinning up your own Bluesky clone means nothing when the value a social network is the users and their network effects, not your tech stack.