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Reposted by Jon Bailey
![So, if you're online poisoned like me, you may have noticed that Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has been having sort of a slow motion, low-key public meltdown for the past several weeks. [...]
For the record: I think Jay Graber is a transphobe; I think there's just too much evidence in her behavior to not read that into her actions at this point. No normal person would go out of their way to court Jesse Singal. A lot of this stuff feels motivated by a glaring animus towards the userbase that Bluesky has attracted; and because this userbase formed around people who simply couldn't justify being on Twitter any more, said userbase is full of highly visible trans users.
But, we can also view it as just run of the mill stuff for any kind of corporate social media platform; you expect them to be unaccountable, to have vague policies that are enforced with no consistency, and so on. What distinguishes the Bluesky case, though, is that Bluesky has a very particular ideology that Graber and her cohorts push, which is that they are 'stewards of the AT Protocol'. She has repeatedly made this point: you can take your ball and go home.
Graber posts something like this basically every other day. So, let's examine her claim a little bit. [...]
ATProto's complicated architecture more or less puts running an alternative app into the realm of well-funded nonprofits and startups, as opposed to Mastodon instances which can easily be run by hobbyists on their own domestic hardware. [...]
AT Proto decentralization doesn't exist as a practical reality, and if it ever does it won't be for years. Most of the work driving effective decentralization is being done by third parties, who have limited guarantees about future compatibility with possible breaking changes on Bluesky's end.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g5d4zw65ifcuiwe7jqcgdtmp/bafkreic7e763rui3rui4vvq35mwllnpjgg2c43brqsczldcp7t3obdjcrq@jpeg)
![[Cueball is walking on a sandy beach near the shore. A bottle with a paper inside is stuck in the sand, presumably from being washed up by the tide.]
[Cueball has picked up the bottle and is reading the message inside. The messages contents are displayed on the top portion of the panel. There is illegible text written beneath the message title.]
Message Title: ICMP Echo Request
[Cueball has set the bottle down below him and is now scribbling out a new message. Once again, the contents are on the top portion of the panel, with illegible text written beneath the message title.]
Message Title: ICMP Echo Reply
[Cueball is walking away from the shore now, having set the bottle back into the sea.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g5d4zw65ifcuiwe7jqcgdtmp/bafkreidlkffoohblwqhnyqcrzhctq66wwo6fxohozryphbdmeeimwgoyke@jpeg)
Reposted by Jon Bailey
Reposted by Jon Bailey
