European Medicines Agency ditches Elon Musk’s X in favor of Bluesky
European Medicines Agency ditches Elon Musk’s X in favor of Bluesky
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is the regulator for vaccines and medicine in the European Union (EU), has stopped using the social media platform X. The website is owned by Elon Musk, who is an important ally of the newly elected United States president Donald Trump. The EMA, whose headq...
Man, everyone bitching about Bluesky but very few cheering the long overdue departure from twitter.
Anywhere is better than twitter.
Ah yes anywhere is better than twitter let me go switch to threads.
Jumping from one central controlled platform to another changes absolutely nothing. People switching to Blue sky instead of the fediverse are braindead
Threads and twitter are both worse than bsky. I like Mastodon even more but bsky is at least a departure from open right extremist rhetorics.
I could debate the braindead assertion, but I don't feel like it, and in any case a braindead not-Nazi is a net improvement over a Nazi (which are braindead anyway) or a Neo-Nazi (who do a damn good job at imitating that).
That's people for you. Nag, nag, nag, nag, nag!
Disappointing.
They could have followed the EC’s example https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/about
You could send a question to them to ask why: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/about-us/contacts-european-medicines-agency/send-question-european-medicines-agency
Yes...most of these news recently is then followed up by:we are on bluesky now... Well it's fair enough but they should at least also join mastodon .. I don't know. It's frustrating.
Or just bridge to Mastodon
Lmao they went to Bluesky, a centralized (don’t get pedantic with me) social media platform controlled by Americans. Genius
Still an improvement
From boiling water into water that happens to be in a switched-on kettle. Huge improvement.
When the enshittification comes (when, not if, they'll have to drag their feet to move somewhere else again. All their followers will have to follow them again. Had they moved to a proper open solution, they could've stayed there indefinitely.
It's not just about Bluesky" not being the proper and pure solution", it's about this being a temporary measure at best, and people don't seem to realize that.
Wikipedia says "direct messages are offered though a central service". If that's was/still is correct then you're correct, it's centralized.
Nuance is the friend of truth - pedantic.
The whole algorithm (AppView) is centralised. While it's technically possible to host with enough capital, a second AppView server would also double bandwidth required for every message sent on the network. This gets worse the more AppView instances you add, as every message has to be sent to every AppView server (exponential growth)
People go to the platform that's easy, attractive and works, instead of the very beautiful, finely crafted, exquisite solution that requires days of reading followed by fiddling every other day to barely get the same immediate result, assorted with hidden surprises like hidden moderation and silent failure situation that leads to fragmentation of the whole network. What a surprise.
Also, "don't get pedantic with me" does not sit well with the current goals of bluesky. Sure, right now, they focused on making something that works and is usable by everyone. Whoop fucking doo, that's exactly what mastodon/lemmy/most activitypub services skipped. And that's why the general public look at them with contempt. I can't see the future (maybe you can, lucky you), but for now, bluesky works, and the plan they're still following up to now is aimed toward a decentralized solution.
If I had a company with public presence, I would too. Companies and organization's go to the people are.
This is local thing though.
not enough, we need businesses and other government organisatiins ditching X fast
Use mastodon
It's not X, it's Truth Social 2.0.
