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Bluesky has great aspirations to never become an enshittified platform and I admire much of what it’s done so far. But, as with many once-open social media platforms, it’s still beholden to its investors who sooner or later want to see a profit, either through a functional business model (which it does not have yet) or an acquisition. It is not enshittification-proof nor billionaire-proof.
https://chromamine.com/2024/12/blueskys-enshittification-risk/
It's gratifying that this post is popular here, but, hypocritically, getting so many likes and boosts on this one specifically makes me worry the culture here is a little too self congratulatory.
Mastodon may be billionaire- and enshittification-proof, but there's still many good reasons we're not as popular that we should be working on fixing if we want to provide a compelling alternative to the VC/corporate model.
@harris "I’m not myself off of enshittified or en-route-to-being-enshittified platforms."
Not sure if I'm just unable to parse this or if there's a typo. 
@jwisser I thiiiiiiink it parses semantically, but I agree I sorta confused the syntax there 
A more clear sentence would be:
I, myself, am still using enshittified and en-route-to-being-enshittified platforms.
@harris If this kills Bluesky Mastodon will benefit. Bluesky users CAN'T go back to Birdchan for the most part
@harris I'm not convinced that we should want this to be that similar to those models.
(Which is not to say I disagree that we can be very self-congratulatory.)
@harris But I want to be among the handful of repulsively idealistic freaks, lack of critical mass of users be damned! 
@harris@social.cooPopularity as a standard and goal is self-defeating, Bigger is not better.
It's never good enough, is it?