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The Swedish community is completely different on Bluesky now compared to before the summer and the network in general is becoming more mainstream than mostly tr

by jug 3y ago

The Swedish community is completely different on Bluesky now compared to before the summer and the network in general is becoming more mainstream than mostly transpersons and furries. I also love the new concept of custom algorithms. It means I can get streams based on metadata such as only in Swedish which helps a TON with community building and discovering new people, or an Instagram-like stream of photo-only posts. This would never have happened if it was business as usual over at X. So I find myself more over at Bluesky than Mastodon these days. Community trumps ideology for me but then again, I'm not rms but just a pragmatic dude.

neysofu 3y ago
Why is it still invite-only? They had (have?) A unique opportunity with people begging to use their service... they were in the right place at the right time, and they willingly decided to limit sign-ups and let the hype die. I'm baffled.
- Hamuko 3y ago
  Last I read, they're finishing up on some architecture upgrades in order to scale the service in the future and that it should be finished by the end of the year. After that, the invites might go away.
colinsane 3y ago
i heard enough about bluesky from an IRL friend that i finally went to check it out and… sorry, but it’s got all the branding of a tech startup whose employees discuss “growth hacking” with a straight face. https://bsky.social https://bsky.social is just a giant splash screen where it’s impossible to learn anything more about the platform before signing up. there’s an invite system, yet simultaneously it’s supposed to be decentralized? Google around and you’ll find blueskyweb.xyz with an FAQ page which talks up the decentralization angle massively. search “how would one deploy a Bluesky instance” for an hour and eventually learn that the stack is split into like four different conceptual layers with meaningless acronym names and the parts that actually matter are closed source. so idk, until proven otherwise Bluesky is just a PR campaign promising everything to everyone and what they’ll actually deliver is a complete mystery. still, i wish they would bridge to Activity Pub so that i could peek inside without having to tie myself to it.

by jug 3y ago

neysofu 3y ago

Why is it still invite-only? They had (have?) A unique opportunity with people begging to use their service... they were in the right place at the right time, and they willingly decided to limit sign-ups and let the hype die. I'm baffled.

Hamuko 3y ago
Last I read, they're finishing up on some architecture upgrades in order to scale the service in the future and that it should be finished by the end of the year. After that, the invites might go away.

colinsane 3y ago

i heard enough about bluesky from an IRL friend that i finally went to check it out and… sorry, but it’s got all the branding of a tech startup whose employees discuss “growth hacking” with a straight face. https://bsky.social https://bsky.social is just a giant splash screen where it’s impossible to learn anything more about the platform before signing up. there’s an invite system, yet simultaneously it’s supposed to be decentralized? Google around and you’ll find blueskyweb.xyz with an FAQ page which talks up the decentralization angle massively. search “how would one deploy a Bluesky instance” for an hour and eventually learn that the stack is split into like four different conceptual layers with meaningless acronym names and the parts that actually matter are closed source. so idk, until proven otherwise Bluesky is just a PR campaign promising everything to everyone and what they’ll actually deliver is a complete mystery. still, i wish they would bridge to Activity Pub so that i could peek inside without having to tie myself to it.