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On the last HN thread about Nostr I've mentioned Bluesky, and talked about its qualities, including the separation of various duties, like the feed, moderation,
by cube2222 3y ago
On the last HN thread about Nostr I've mentioned Bluesky, and talked about its qualities, including the separation of various duties, like the feed, moderation, storage, etc. into different entities that can be pluggable.
Since that I got an invite (thank you, Sam!) and I'm even more bullish now (though I'm not much of a social media poster myself).
Compared to Nostr it seems like there's a first-party "base" app that most people can use, which has UX very similar to Twitter, with the assumption that people will be able to make their pick of app/moderation/feed/... later based on merit, not lock-in.
It seems like in the recent days/weeks a lot of non-technical various public figures have onboarded Bluesky, thanks to this ease of getting started. Folks that I wouldn't expect there for a while yet.
To any Nostr users - how's that developing there? Based on my cursory look onboarding looks quite a bit more daunting.
Anyway, the Twitter blue checkmark seems to be a blessing for decentralized social networks.
EDIT: Since I already got an email about it 5 mins after writing this - No, I don't have any invite codes, sorry.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692378
- javier123454321 3y agoDownload amethyst on Android or Damus on IOS. You're onboarded. Set up a lightning wallet to receive tips for valuable content. No wait list for this decentralized protocol. No native app, no dev team, no terms of service.
- cube2222 3y agoThanks, I might check it out then! > No wait list for this decentralized protocol. This should soon be the case with Bluesky as well, iirc, since federation seems to be the main thing they're ironing out right now (alongside moderation).
- sak5sk 3y agoI'm curious what part is daunting to you? I have no issues getting set up on Damus. It was as easy as any other app.
- RobotToaster 3y agoBluesky doesn't even have federation and/or decentralisation yet, so they aren't really comparable.
- stiltzkin 3y agoWhat do you think of Bluesky TOS?
- kylecazar 3y agoThe AT protocol is interesting to me, but I actually don't like Twitter's UX. The organization has always seemed off to me -- when Bluesky starts taking more people from the wait-list, I suppose I'll see if it's any better, but I'm glad it's only a 'reference' or initial front-end, and more will come.
- _fizz_buzz_ 3y agoSeems like bluesky will be where people move from twitter. I was kind of hoping mastodon would be it and my mastodon feed is actually pretty good. But everyone seems to be moving to bluesky as soon as they get an invite.