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Basically Bluesky is getting to learn all of the lessons about why running a social network is hard, at an extremely high speed, with lots of public scrutiny. F
by yuliyp 3y ago
Basically Bluesky is getting to learn all of the lessons about why running a social network is hard, at an extremely high speed, with lots of public scrutiny. Fun.
- kayodelycaon 3y agoIt is very human to continuously fail to listen to the lessons of history, only to rediscover them.
- pc86 3y agoNot a comment specific to Bluesky at all, but I think it's human to believe that we are different than the thousands/millions/billions of people to try $THING before us. That somehow our intuition is better (it might be, but rarely), or that it will be faster/easier to just experiment our way to our end goal rather than step back and learn first (it might be, but rarely).
- JohnFen 3y agoYes, and particularly for devs. We tend to start to believe our own hype and think we're uniquely smart.
- elliekelly 3y agoSometimes I’ll revisit code I’ve written and think “wow, so dumb, I could’ve just done xyz” only to implement my obviously far-superior method and recall that I’ve already learned this lesson and there was a good reason I hadn’t done xyz the first time.
- JohnFen 3y agoYes! I am humbled every time I look at my old code. I'm always disappointed by it. This is because I've grown since I wrote it, so that's a good thing. I don't want my best work to be behind me. At the same time, I also have to recognize that the brilliant code I'm writing right now will look disappointing in five years.
- kayodelycaon 3y agoI try to leave comments for myself and others when I’ve had to write code that looks less than ideal. It’s nice to know something was hacked in for convenience or because it was the best solution at the time. :)
- JohnFen 3y agoYes, when you're knowingly writing less than ideal code. But we're talking about writing code that you thought was great when you wrote it, but when you come back to it a few years later, you can see how far from great it really was. Which, for me, accounts for about 80% of everything I've written.
- dragonwriter 3y agoYeah, which given that Bluesky is a Twitter spin-off with Jack Dorsey as an identified cofounder, board member, and so much the public face that the actual CEO has to remind people that she, not Dorsey, is the CEO, is a bit surprising. You'd think that they’d know all this from day one...
- taco_emoji 3y agoI mean, it blew up in popularity literally overnight. I'm willing to bet a lot of these features are on their backlog, they just haven't had time to do them all yet.
- BaseballPhysics 3y agoPeople elsewhere have said it before, and I'm going to echo their words: It is simply irresponsible to launch a new social media platform without a solution for trust and safety already in place. That they did so puts their judgement in serious question.
- capableweb 3y agoDoes being a private, invite-only deployment count as launching nowadays? We used to reserve that word for when services publicly launch and are ready for the general public.
- ohgodplsno 3y agoWhen you're spamming about yourself throughout the internet, paying for publicity about how you super secret private exclusive club is so much better than Twitter, yes, it's a launch. In the same way that Clubhouse launched, despite being invite only.
- tedunangst 3y agoI don't think bluesky has control over other people hyping them. If they were buying Super Bowl ads, that would be one thing. Exuberant press from extremely online take makers is another.
- capableweb 3y ago> When you're spamming about yourself throughout the internet > paying for publicity about how you super secret private exclusive club is so much better than Twitter I haven't seen either of those things happening from the bluesky team. I've seen them talk about bluesky, which makes sense, but spamming? Neither have I seen any ads to join bluesky, which would be weird considering you cannot really join bluesky unless you get an invite. Where did you see the paid advertisement precisely?
- skybrian 3y agoIf they really can learn at high speed then that would be a significant competitive advantage, more important than getting things right up front.