Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025)

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Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause: What, and I cannot stress this enough, the FUCK does this mean?!
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Pluralistic: Defense (of the internet) (from billionaires) in depth (23 Jan 2025)

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Defense (of the internet) (from billionaires) in depth: "Nonprofits" can and do enshittify.
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