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  • Social media in general don’t need to. Atpor servers operators in general don’t need to. But Bluesky does, because it’s accountable in front of its investors. So yes, they do have to make money, and no, there is no solution that does not go with some level of enshittification. And then they’ll get pressed to make more money, to grow their revenues every year. And it can only go down from there.







  • But there will be more satellites, and not just from SpaceX. They are already disturbing astronomers work, and it will only get worse.

    There was no real debate about whether the world population is ok with it. Big corp has money, big corp acts for its interest and nothing else.

    And I’m not denying the benefits of low-orbit satellites and having vast but lowly populated areas at last getting access to a fast Internet. I’m jùst pointing out that this whole thing is happening mostly out of control (or very very few control).

    If you add that now international laws was shot and its body discarded in the toilet, also note that getting too much dependent on these satellites makes you very vulnerable to a military strike. I have no doubt that Russia, China and other countries (Iran?) are actively working on satellites destruction, with or without creating debris and giving us a Kessler syndrom. If you look at climate change, on-going life mass extinction, water scarcity, etc. there is little doubt that world leaders will make the worst possible decisions in the name of pragmatism (or religion, but it doesn’t really matter).