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 headquarters are based in Amsterdam, is currently the only EU organization to leave the platform.
Are you implying Bluesky is worse? Because that’s what that idiom means.
No, not worse. It’s just not decentralized in a meaningful sense, so it suffers from the same enshittification problems that have killed Twitter, Reddit, BoingBoing, Digg, Slashdot…
Fundamentally, it’s not any worse, but it’s not any better either.
That’s not the right idiom, then.
I don’t agree that the idiom implies “worse”. In trying to escape being burnt in the frying pan, you’re getting burnt in the fire. Either way, you’re getting burnt.
You don’t get to decide how language works.
It implies going from a bad situation to a worse one, and has from the moment it existed.
Fine. It’s not the right idiom to express the point.
Point is still valid, even if I initially expressed it poorly.
Well… Bluesky was founded by the same sort of techbro culture that spawned Xitter, but hit hasn’t gone full incel fash fanboy like Xitter. So maybe it’s more “Out of the fire, into the frying pan, then back into the fire” because I’m pretty sure Bluesky will follow Twitters trajectory.
But hasn’t yet and that’s good enough for me right now. I’m not interested in letting perfect be the enemy of good.
Twitter truly went to shit when Musk bought them, and I doubt anything quite like that will happen any time soon, especially considering the huge loss in value since the takeover.