@antonio (#dtbqo7q) I wonder though... If Twitter™ eventually plans to build its app on top of Bluesky, how will they continue to monetize Twitter as a company? 🤔

@prologic (#dtbqo7q) It definitely goes against their current business model.

(#dtbqo7q) @antonio Yeah I mean if Twitter™ rebuilt their app on Bluesky, **and** all (_or almost all_) Twitter™ users migrated to other Bluesky compatible platforms/servers/instances/whatever, would Twitter™ have enough users left to continue to fund their advertising based business model? 🤔 Or did I _somehow_ miss the point of Bluesky and _maybe_ there is some mechanisms for "monetization" in there?

@prologic (#dtbqo7q) The mentioned something about algorithms. May be they will charge or display ads with an instance chooses to connect to Twitter algorithms? It will be interesting to see how this develops.

@antonio (#dtbqo7q) Yeah I _believe_ I recall someone saying that it's not about having algorithms or not having algorithms. That person stated that even sorting a timeline chronologically is an algorithm. I _think_ we have to define very clearly what algorithms means for social media and how they can be used and abused. I've thought about it a lot, and I still _believe_ that even doing simple things like showing a "Trending" section of Twts where there's a lot of twts being tagged with #foo is a bad idea.

(#dtbqo7q) Maybe it's just me but I _think_ we need to keep things simple, allow humans to do the "thinking" and "choosing". It's far too easy to get into situations where you have all of the problems created by the big traditional social media platforms with Likes, Retweets, Trending, Immutable content (_it never goes away_), Top Heavy (_millions of followers_), etc.

@prologic (#dtbqo7q) What complicated things do we *need to keep simple*?

@prologic (#dtbqo7q) Yeah I almost felt like that guy was joking. Comparing what they do with an algorithm that sort by date it is a bit of a joke.

@antonio (#dtbqo7q) Agreed. I mean yes on one hand he is right, sorting algorithms are well umm "algorithms", but he's completely missing the actual point. It's the controlling what users see that's the real issue here. Or at least that's a big part of the problem.

@prologic (#dtbqo7q) Yes. They profile you and decide what they think you want to see. That is where the problem is, at least for me.