There's something I call the Popular Alternative Complex where something that is flocked to as a popular alternative will inevitibly disappoint and become part of enshittification as they become too comfortable being the popular alternative.
duckduckgo, mozilla firefox, ubuntu, storygraph, telegram, discord
sometimes its because they become too big or go public, sometimes theres leadership change and sometimes it seems they just lose their core values.
but i find it often to be the case be it duckduckgo censoring results, shoving their duck ai into the mix or carving out privacy disrespecting loopholes for microsoft, be it mozilla adding in ads and ai stuff to the browser, be it ubuntu attempting to push their own ecosystem to the detriment of others despite linux philosophy sort of going against that, to discord, a popular alternative to skype just becoming a corporate behemoth and pushing nitro so much that they slash the upload limit for non paying users
its just something ive noticed.
its why im not too optimistic about bluesky and theyve already shown their ass when they wouldnt ban jesse singal despite him being reported on multiple times for transphobia, only reason he left was because users gave him no engagement and he left back to twitter.
their trust and safety guy liked some porn and a trans woman had a bot set up to mirror likes, which are public information, bluesky is an open protocol. he banned the bot and the trans woman citing a privacy violation, again this is public info and he's a public figure liking porn on his main account. she was reinstated but boy was that a clownshow.
i do like that they want to make bluesky an open protocol thing and i believe you can host your own bluesky but the main instance is baffoonery.