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Nose Ears @lemm.ee mayhair @discuss.tchncs.de 1w ago

Nose Ears #20: Proprietary Social Media

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Bluesky 5 years from now
It’s all about polish. That’s how AOL chat rooms lured the masses from BBS, and AIM replaced IRC as the mainstream messaging service back in the late 90s.
- Meh, you can only polish a turd so much. I would like to point out that AIM no longer exists but IRC does.
  
  I think what you really mean is marketing. Also, I think you rely on a false equivalency that popular = better.
  
  Yes, but the majority of people that left AIM went to Friendster or MySpace.
  
  You and I obviously have the same preference or we’d be having this conversation on Reddit. I was really just referring to mass appeal versus quality.
- Except everything has been getting worse for a while now

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