the benefit i can see is that instead of having to share out to other social media, you can just see it in any fediverse account you have thanks to activity pub which eliminates one of the barriers to being viral.
that said i don't think it will get mainstream appeal.
i mean hemorrhaging users and engagement is why they're trying to monetize whatever they can
do third party twitter developers even exist anymore?
never understood the backlash in the first place considering comic sans was one of the most accessible fonts
just pls let google fi users use chat features and rcs when they log in with their fi account.
i love having voicemail in web messages but hate how you have to give to rcs for it
jack didn't found bluesky he was just on a board which provided some early funding; he had no role in the development.
and the butterfly was partially due to the community. https://bsky.social/about/blog/12-21-2023-butterfly
bsky is currently the only social network with a woman of colour ceo, which is pretty awesome imo (i hate how people always try to incorrectly say jack dorsey created it when it erases jay's work)
dorsey left because he wanted to moderation and for it to be the wild west like twitter though....
you can also follow bsky users on mastodon and mastodon users on bsky using bridgyfed.
mastodon blew it by attacking people who had legitimate concerns about the service during the first migration.
he isn't wrong