Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋

⚠️ I don’t post here anymore. Find me on Bluesky 🦋 @o.simardcasanova.net: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:esmiuxk53vmsllayghrq676w.

🦋 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:esmiuxk53vmsllayghrq676w
Website: https://o.simardcasanova.net

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2024-08-31 16:04:17 UTC

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What nonsense is this
In what dimension tagging a post is solicitation for advice?
If I were soliciting advice, I would have, you know, clearly solicited advice. Which I didn’t.
Make it makes sense

2024-08-31 11:45:01 UTC

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What do you mean?

2024-08-31 01:59:07 UTC

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I’m muting this
Not that I’m surprised, but too many of the conversations this thread generated were very unpleasant, in a typical Mastodon way
If the feature existed, I would also close replies
But Mastodon doesn’t have enough resources to implement it, which is a massive trust and safety issue in my opinion
Not Mastodon’s team fault, but the end result is the same
I’m going back to Bluesky
Peace ✌️

2024-08-31 00:42:21 UTC

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Your unsolicited advices are very unwelcome

2024-08-31 00:30:56 UTC

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Personally, similarly to many other people, my experience on Mastodon has been particularly awful
I don’t like Threads, but I find a lot of joy on Bluesky
Everybody is different, once again, use the platform that works best for you
I’m not interested in building yet another monoculture, quite the contrary actually

2024-06-12 23:21:43 UTC

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I think this is the first time I’m having a constructive and genuinely interesting discussion on Mastodon about this subject. Thank you for that! I really appreciate it.
One of my worst experiences on social media happened on Mastodon, where I was harassed when I said I had a legitimate use case for quote posts. And then I received a strike by my former instance, on the grounds of "if you don’t like Mastodon, go back to Twitter".
I appreciate the change.

2024-06-12 23:17:03 UTC

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Same here. Bluesky has been very supportive of Bridgy. I don’t think AT Protocol can work with ActivityPub, as they are built on very different models. But bridges can already provide a lot of value. I’m following with a lot of interest the development of Bridgy.

2024-06-12 21:27:17 UTC

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You’re welcome.
In a nutshell, Jack Dorsey initiated Bluesky while he was Twitter’s CEO. At first, it was an internal project. But when Twitter hired Jay Graber to lead it, she spent six months advocating for Bluesky to be set as an autonomous entity. Which was approved, with a grant of 13 million USD paid by Twitter.
She designed the basic principles of AT Proto, and has run Bluesky ever since.
If she didn’t make it an independent entity, Bluesky would have been killed by Elon Musk.

2024-06-12 21:03:07 UTC

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To be clear, my criticism isn’t directed at you for sharing the video. I’m not even criticizing the author of the video. I have no reason to even suspect he had any intention to completely erase Jay Graber and her work.
My criticism is more systemic. Many media pushed the narrative of a "Jack Dorsey-run Bluesky" because it made a compelling story of tech billionaires fighting each other.
But in the case of Bluesky, it’s just not true.

2024-05-21 10:13:11 UTC

The algorithm of #Threads is such a piece of garbage.
I’m slightly interested by the most recent #OpenAI disaster.
But almost all of my feed is made of people *I don’t follow* who post about it.
It’s awfully annoying, and it reduces the informational value of the app to basically zero.