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Bluesky signups are now open to the public
- Kye 3y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274438
- wesleytodd 3y agoyeah but this one is more official right. It is from one of their team members.
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- riffic 3y agowhy do we say dupe on orange site? this is like the most trivial inconsequential thing to call out, let this be duped. This is going to be news to someone. to add some more substance to my comment this is how I see Bluesky's virality/stickiness playing out: everyone's going to move to it, it's going to be an unofficial but incompatible "fediverse2", folks will pretend the actual Fediverse doesn't exist, and then the actual Bluesky public benefit corporation (or some derivative, come on guys you wanna get filthy rich) will eventually turn to a data brokerage/ advertising play to enshittify the entire thing.
- nickthegreek 3y agoWe say dupe so a moderator can combine the listings into one and merge the conversations. The original submission is 40mins older, don't worry the people will still see the news. A single article with more upvotes and comments will raise up further/stay there than 2 articles with moderate engagement.
- riffic 3y agookay that actually makes sense I appreciate your explanation.
- HumblyTossed 3y agoWhat's bluesky again?
- worldsayshi 3y agoA Twitter alternative.
- Mashimo 3y agoJust from reading the page it seems like a mix of twitter and reddit. You can follow certain channels instead of an algorithm. Not sure what they mean with "Dock it every port, your network comes with your" Is it federated?
- legohead 3y agoCan't choose your own handle (it's taken).
- chomp 3y agoYour handle can be your personal domain or any domain also.
- arcalinea 3y agoYep — tutorial and some examples: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutor...
- legohead 3y agoMy domains are not my handle, and even so, I can't buy a domain with the handle I'd prefer (it's taken). My point was subtle, that this shouldn't be an issue. It has been solved in various ways.
- the_duke 3y agoI feel like this would have been a lot more impactful a year ago, when the Twitter drama was in full swing. Feedback: the homepage looks more like a tech product pitch site, and the announcement post also doesn't look very polished. I guess the target for Bluesky isn't so much the "regular Facebook/Twitter/IG user", more the nerd. Side question: what's the interop story between Bluesky and Mastodon now?
- angulardragon03 3y agoAfaik no interop - they use different protocols.
- lnxg33k1 3y agoI am not sure, during the Twitter drama was in full swing Meta tried to launch an alternative, and how long did it last? A couple of weeks? I think social sector is filled, with boomers on facebook, cool people on instagram, kids on tiktok, woke on twitter, meme people on reddit?
- zimpenfish 3y ago> Meta tried to launch an alternative, and how long did it last? A couple of weeks? If you mean Threads, it's currently up to 130M monthly active users[0]. Estimates for Twitter late 2023-early 2024 are between 350-400M MAU. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/threads-now-reaches-more-130-million-monthly-users-says-meta-up-30m-from-q3/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/threads-now-reaches-more-1...
- lnxg33k1 3y agoAh okay, didn't know that, I've read some time after the launch that it was going desert, somewhere on an article linked here, I am not a social network person, so wasn't following it
- piperswe 3y agoWho are these users? I haven't heard a single person talking about actually using Threads.
- lionkor 3y agoWow that comic invokes very unpleasant feelings for me. Super weird, way too corporate for a ... comic...? Seems confused. Their big selling point is blocking stuff you don't wanna see? Thats the big selling point? And... exploration!?
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- dmix 3y agoI've seen the word "block" about 20 times since trying out Bluesky. Seems to be a core part of the culture there to aggressively block anyone posting stuff you don't want to see. On Twitter I just curate who I follow so I don't see annoying stuff and that's worked perfectly fine for me.
- chihuahua 3y agoThe comic feels like self-parody. "Come with me to the wonderful land of BlueSky, where everything is *open* and *magic* and all bad trolls are blocked!" "That's amazing! I think I'll like it here!" "YAY!"
- jakebsky 3y agoThis is a big milestone for Bluesky! We've had the federation sandbox running for over six months but we're now able to commit to open federation on the production network this month as well. There's also stackable moderation coming shortly, which enables other individuals/orgs to operate moderation labeling services that users can choose to use. The technical challenges of setting up an (efficiently) scalable decentralized social network were quite interesting. The infrastructure itself is quite decentralized, with standalone PDS instances and two small shared-nothing datacenter PoPs. We're using SQLite with millions of individual databases for each user's repository and ScyllaDB for the global indexing service (AppView). https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architect... If anyone has questions, technical or otherwise, some of the team should be around today to answer them. Edit: HN'ers might also appreciate this paper written primarily by Martin Kleppman about Bluesky and AT Protocol https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239.pdf
- radlad 3y ago> There's also stackable moderation coming shortly, which enables other individuals/orgs to operate moderation labeling services that users can choose to use. Very excited for this - IMO, this is federated social media's biggest promise.
- cdchn 3y ago"We tag trolls so you don't have to."
- radlad 3y agoI'm not sure if you're being facetious or not, so I'll explain further. Currently, if you want to be part of a social network, your options are to opt-in to Zuckerberg's moderation or Musk's moderation. It would be great if these were _actually_ opt-in (as in, you can be part of a social network without opting in to their moderation polices) and if you can use anyone's "moderation list." I think ultimately this would allow for freer expression than exists on current social networks.
- lnxg33k1 3y agoHow many social networks recently, Lemmy? The other one with crypto guys? This one? It's 2005 all over again? I am wondering if it's either because it's a relatively easy thing to code or because investors are likely to throw money at it?
- Mistletoe 3y agoProbably because we need new ones badly. Reddit and Twitter are two sinking bot-infested enshittification ships and we need a new place to go. Network lock-in is proving to be a very difficult nut to crack in the dystopia we have created though. You need people to jump ship but no one wants to go where the millions of eyes aren’t.
- miroljub 3y agoWhy do you think any halfway popular social network won't be infested with bots and commercalizers?
- RankingMember 3y agoMy hope anyways is that there are more effective countermeasures. I remember Twitter not being nearly as bad before, but that was possibly just because verification actually meant something more than "have $10" and blue checks weren't turbo-boosted.
- MSFT_Edging 3y agoThe fact that the verification system is paid, and that is abused by bots, means twitter no longer has any incentive to remove said bots. Its basically the entire ad industry, there's little proof ads work, the metrics for ads are all inflated, yet its one of the biggest money makers out there. Same deal with the bots grinding views and likes for marginal payouts.
- Mistletoe 3y agoReddit wasn’t for a long time. Having leadership in place that actually cares about the users and doing something about bots would go a long way. Maybe when Reddit IPOs and it is a huge bust we can get some new sites going.
- kevinmchugh 3y agoI've been on for a few months now. It feels like 2014 Twitter in that it doesn't have gifs or video, so you will see some very good jokes. A number of people I used to follow on Twitter are over there but seem to have broken out of the posting habit and are quieter now. When I look at the "discover" tab I don't usually see much stuff that's interesting to me. It's a lot of men posting thirst-traps, furries, bog standard too online politics, and discussion about what's going on on Twitter Edit to add: people really like to advise blocking. It's to the point that new users are often advised to add a profile photo and an intro post before following people, because you might get blocked just for not having those. I don't know what this is about - possibly because there's no private/locked accounts? It seems really strange to me.
- JacobThreeThree 3y agoThe network effect is very strong.
- RankingMember 3y agoIt will be interesting to see how the fragmentation in the post-Twitter landscape eventually consolidates. To your broader point, I think it's an interesting time where there's trepidation over just becoming Twitter 2.0 versus making some improvements that improve the experience of the platform. Even before Elon, Twitter definitely had some pain points, such as repetitive gif-replies and toxic political stuff, as you alluded to.
- packetlost 3y agoYeah, I've tried to seek out and post technical stuff but it's mostly people virtue signalling, rage baiting, and complaining about other sites.
- j4yav 3y agoI made an account to check it out and was surprised to see it was just recommending nothing but US politics outrage bait, just like Twitter.
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- who-shot-jr 3y agoAll the single word handles seem to be taken! :(
- dev1ycan 3y agoMusk has done a lot of questionable things, but does anyone remember how actually unusable twitter was before the sale? Musk Twitter has its own set of problems but Jack has proved he has no idea what he's doing
- hedora 3y agoAt this point, whenever I go to twitter, it shows status updates that are years out of date. For example, compare this: https://ubuntu.social/@launchpadstatus https://ubuntu.social/@launchpadstatus to this: https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus?lang=en https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus?lang=en
- internetter 3y agoThis is because you are logged out. Please note that this is not me advocating for this practice. It has broken the web in immensely frustrating ways.
- hedora 3y agoGiven that it appears to be completely broken (last tweet for that account was 6 hours ago, and it's showing a 6 month old cached version), why would I bother creating an account?
- internetter 3y agoI agree. It's ridiculous. I was simply explaining why this behaviour happened.
- biggestfan 3y agoWhen you're not logged in, the profile view shows you the most liked posts from that account, not the most recent. Not sure why.
- frankjr 3y agoI remember that before the whole fiasco of a sale Twitter was a place where I could follow interesting tech people. These days those people have left for Mastodon etc. (or stopped posting entirely) and were replaced with hoards of $8 spammers whose only interest is to push inflammatory content to generate the most views and get paid for it.
- mobiuscog 3y agoWhat does it offer over Mastodon, and following hashtags as topics ?
- bobajeff 3y agoWith the promises of AT Protocol I wonder what the reality of starting your own competing site to bluesky would be if it were to become as popular as Twitter. I've also been looking into LBRY too and have the same question in regards Odysee. I'm sure we won't know until someone tries. I have a feeling there might be some unforseen network effects or barriers that build up over time to prevent someone from coming along with a better site. I'm just curious to see what they are and how insurmountable they might be.
- paxys 3y agoPretty ironic that when Twitter was imploding Meta launched a competitor that was fully compatible with ActivityPub/Mastodon while the team dedicated to building an open competitor (Bluesky) created a proprietary protocol that nobody uses.
- jakebsky 3y agoThreads has been promising to integrate with ActivityPub since it launched. To date they've done very little and their timeline extends until the end of 2024. I'd personally be very happy if Threads gives up control over their users but it remains to be seen. ActivityPub also lacks the very strong account portability feature that made AT Protocol necessary. AT Protocol is completely open source and the Bluesky network is completely open. The Bluesky network has had an open API for a year with full access to all public data (no auth required): websocat wss://bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos More info on: https://atproto.com https://atproto.com
- ianopolous 3y agoTo be clear, strong account portability predates Bluesky by ~5 years. Peergos[0], as reviewed by Jay before Bluesky Inc was created, has had this for years: https://book.peergos.org/features/migration.html https://book.peergos.org/features/migration.html [0] https://github.com/peergos/peergos https://github.com/peergos/peergos
- threeseed 3y ago> To date they've done very little Not true. You can now follow Adam Mosseri's Threads account from Mastodon. And like you said they are committed to fully rolling it out this year.
- jakebsky 3y agoLimited functionality for a specified subset of users counts as "very little" to my mind given that they launched 6 months ago and have a team of hundreds working on it. But like I said, I sincerely do hope Threads follows through on their plan to federate. But it's just not correct to claim that they already have.
- Sol- 3y agoReading testimonials from people who seemingly enjoy Bluesky, it sounds like the main perk is its exclusiveness and feeling like the good old days when Twitter was just for hardcore social media nerds? Is that that a recipe for success and wouldn't opening up undermine it? I don't see how any Twitter clone would avoid the pitfalls that make social media like Twitter fundamentally annoying. It's not about the technology or being federated or not, but about such internet-scale communities just not working well. You'll always end up with online drama about the silliest things and terminally online power users. Everybody hates Discord, but I think more communities should strive towards isolating themselves from the broader net to keep conversations civil.
- WD-42 3y agoThis exactly. It’s not the platform, it’s the people. I think social networks work fine for small niche communities where conversion stays focused. The problem with all general social networks is that they eventually all devolve into political flame wars. Everyone is just over it.
- timeon 3y agoNiche communities around some topic work well if people that are interested come and go. But if the niche is artificially created by fact that community is gated, then such community is not sustainable. Cabin fever and general fatigue of users.
- bombcar 3y agoReddit almost solved it because they figured out a way to make a large collection of small communities, but then that slumped into the melt as it was likely to do.
- jeffbee 3y agoI don't understand how people believe they just "end up" like that. You don't ever need to see celebrities and related junk online. Just follow your friends and don't follow anyone else.
- speps 3y agoNice, hopefully it'll drown some of the more niche streams and surface more mainstream ones.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoI'm glad this happened as late as it did and that Threads absorbed the FB/IG people first. Let Twitter/Threads remain the home for the influencers, spammers, the eternal September. Hopefully Bluesky continues to attract a steady stream of early adopters but the followers never take over.
- raesene9 3y agoSlightly off-topic on this, but are there any apps that manage posting across BlueSky/Mastodon/Threads/Linkedin? With the fragmentation of social networks and different audiences being in different places, it's a bit annoying to have to manually post in different places (taking account of things like hashtag formats and post length limits), it'd be nice to have a site/app that helped with that.
- mdorazio 3y agoDefinitely. Hootsuite is the one I’m familiar with but it’s targeted more at agencies or larger content creators and is priced for that.
- neogodless 3y agoThere have been a few. I know https://www.hootsuite.com https://www.hootsuite.com is one of those, but does not currently seem updated to support any of the ones you asked about! https://fedica.com/ https://fedica.com/ seems to maybe be a parent company (acquisition?) of Hootsuite. https://buffer.com/publish https://buffer.com/publish I first heard about this ages ago as a way to build a queue of things to put out to Twitter. They likely support Mastodon and LinkedIn now, but probably not yet the others. See https://support.buffer.com/article/567-supported-channels https://support.buffer.com/article/567-supported-channels
- felixthehat 3y agoha same! I just last week started building an app for myself where I can cross post to mastodon and bluesky (& twitter is in progress, threads doesn't seem to have an api yet). https://grater.app https://grater.app (screenshot at https://imgur.com/lyefPGv https://imgur.com/lyefPGv )
- facorreia 3y agoWhy is it collecting dates of birth?
- anhner 3y agoRequiring phone number is a straight no go from me, sorry.
- jakebsky 3y agoUnderstandable! We hope to relax this but we felt it was necessary to maintain the quality of the network for now.
- anhner 3y agoI thought that is why you might have required it, but on the other hand for malicious actors it's trivial to get a phone number unrelated to them, while legitimate users are giving up their only phone number, possibly exposing it to scammers and robocalls (in case of a breach), or having something linking to their real identity. Anyway, hoping you revisit this one day and that's also when I will try your app again. Wishing you luck!
- smoothjazz 3y agoDoesn't this go against the comic in the post that claims that it's easy to block what you don't want to see? Also that it's an open network? Why not just let everyone in if the moderation tools are good? I definitely would never give my phone number to a social network.
- pc86 3y agoHaving good tools to increase the quality of your network doesn't mean you should willingly let the whole network decline in quality.
- smoothjazz 3y agoYou assume that requiring a phone number increases quality instead of decreases it. I see it as a filter to keep thoughtful people off the platform.
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- Alifatisk 3y agoNote, it requires SMS verification
- eviks 3y agoDo they plan to remove the character limit to also be an alternative to other popular social networks?
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoThe comic on this post is a whole lot of mess. Talking about moderation? Talking about "what if I want to leave"? Those sound like (1) work for me, and (2) why would I want to leave if it's so great? Uggh. And the fragmentation into silos continues.
- Hamuko 3y ago>why would I want to leave if it's so great? If you're on an instance in a federated network and the instance's admin decides that they don't want to keep hosting it, you don't really have an option to stay.
- edavis 3y ago> (2) why would I want to leave if it's so great? A lot of people felt burned by the changes at Twitter over the past 14 months or so. They made meaningful connections on there and with new ownership came changes that altered the character of the platform, in their eyes. But because Twitter is centralized, it's difficult to move your social graph to a new platform in a robust way. The promise of the AT protocol is being "billionaire-proof." If Bluesky gets bought out and you don't like the new owner, you can move your entire social graph and all your posts to a new atproto service without needing permission from the old service. That would be the nuclear option. A smaller step you could take before that is use a different set of moderation services to curate the experience you want (more info: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-13-2023-moderation https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-13-2023-moderation)
- patwolf 3y agoSign up. See the default feed is full of posts celebrating the death of Toby Keith. Delete Account.
- edavis 3y agoI think the "default feed" you're seeing is the "Discover" custom feed that shows up if you haven't followed anybody. Once you do that, your "default feed" is what your follows have posted in reverse chronological order. IMO, the "Discover" feed can be a bit much sometimes. It's very much the collective id of a certain type of social media poster. And not always my cup of tea. But the beauty of Bluesky is there are millions of accounts and thousands of custom feeds you can pick from to tailor your experience. For example, here's one where people share photos of mushrooms: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hsqwcidfez66lwm3gxhfv5in/feed/aaaf2pqeodmpy https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hsqwcidfez66lwm3gxhfv5in/fe...
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- theryan 3y agoThe create account page seems to have incorrect form settings at least for Chrome. The email field prompts to create a new password (and generates it there) and the password field there is no prompt.
- ghaff 3y agoI sort of wonder if the whole short-form social media era just sort of faded away. After Musk essentially destroyed Twitter, it feels like--although various people casually migrated elsewhere--overall, it feels like a lot of people decided that a Twitter-like thing just wasn't part of their daily lives any more. Sometimes there's a forcing function that takes people off their automatic pilot and it feels like Musk caused a lot of people to do so with Twitter.
- WaffleIronMaker 3y agoI agree that, overall, short-form social media is leaving the mainstream with Twitter's decline. However, I still really enjoy short-form media. I can't speak for BlueSky, but I've been enjoying Mastodon a lot. Following people I like has given me a high enough signal to noise ratio that I often find myself saying "Hey! Check out this thing I found on Mastodon!". My friend just joined because of this, and they've been enjoying it too, specifically for programming, infosec, and queer memes (caveat N=2). Idk. I hope there's a future for it.
- ghaff 3y agoI still have a Twitter/X account, got a Mastodon account with the Muskopalypse, and have had a Bluesky invite sitting in my mailbox for a while. It's just clearly moved on from something that was part of my routine to eh.
- Aachen 3y agoAre there mobile apps for Blueky? When I type bluesky or bsky into f-droid, it comes up blank, and I'm not seeing a custom repository or even just an apk download mentioned on the website either. I thought it was like Mastodon except invite-only (till now), so was expecting a similar client ecosystem, but apparently it's more like Twitter was: open ecosystem closed software? Or is it like Tildes whose goal is to have a mobile website that is just as good as a native app?
- delecti 3y agoThere's an official app on the play store. I don't know if it has been mirrored to any other app stores/repositories, but perhaps knowing the app ID will help find it elsewhere. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.blueskyweb.app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.blueskyweb...
- Aachen 3y agoAurora lists a dependency on Google Play Services for that app, so probably notifications wouldn't work for me, if not more parts of that app But I appreciate the pointer!
- psionides 3y agoThere is an official mobile app for iOS and Android, on iOS there are also a few third party ones, not sure about Android.
- hw4m 3y agoYet another social media i don't want to sign up for. Sorry, I'm getting old and grumpy, but I'm not using any of the other social media sites, and I'm not planning on adding one to the list.
- smudgy 3y agoHey! Thanks for the heads up, signed up and now I'm going to do what I did when I signed up to Twitter in the deep past... lurk.
- rvz 3y agoUnsurprisingly, as predicted they eventually lifted the invite system. Unfortunately the interest in Bluesky is not the same as it was, but still a viable Twitter alternative when compared to the others. But my goodness this certainly did not age well at all. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876304
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- srid 3y agoIf you are outside US, joining Farcaster via Warpcast will cost $5. I joined, and the UX does feel quite slick. Mostly it is just crypto users on this network. Note that Farcaster is not decentralized, but "sufficiently decentralized" https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decent...
- computer23 3y agoI've had some concerns about the namespacing issue. Bluesky accounts should be permitted to have both a bsky.social username and one with a custom domain. If I am a company and want to use @myname.com as my username, I would not want someone @myname.bsky.social to fall into the hands of anyone else. So it sort of necessitates signing up for 2 accounts, if only to reserve your name so nobody takes it.
- tristan957 3y agoMastodon solves this through verified accounts.
- CM30 3y agoIt's nice to see this is the case now, though I worry it may be a bit too late. Having BlueSky stuck behind an invite wall gave a huge boost in popularity to other alternatives like Mastodon and Threads, and even now I'm unlikely to find most of the accounts I want to follow on the former service as a result. It just feels super quiet to me at the moment, and I suspect the long time exclusivity played a big role in that.
- itsthecourier 3y agobluesky is really a bad name for a social network. sounds too entreprisy, compare it to: twitter, instagram, tiktok
- mattl 3y agoI figured it related to blue-sky thinking. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blue-sky_thinking https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blue-sky_thinking
- annexrichmond 3y agoI selected my interests as Cooking, Fitness, Nature, Video Games, and my feed has absolutely none of that. Just random politics, activism, and jabs at Twitter. Anyway, nope.
- BryantD 3y agoI don't actually know how the interests are intended to work, but I can say that the key feature of Bluesky is feeds. (I know this isn't at all obvious.) Feeds are third-party created, for the most part, and essentially function as filters. So, for example, I follow a movies feed. Any post which includes the movie camera emoji, the word "filmsky", or a few other keywords is included in the movies feed. It makes it very easy to swipe over and see discussions of cinema. That sounds (and is) a lot like tag-based feeds over on Twitter. However, there's additional potential. Behind the scenes, a feed is a service which takes the user info of the person viewing it and the firehose and decides which posts to include based on that input. So "include all posts with these keywords" is valid, but so is "include the top 100 posts with these keywords, as measured by likes." Or "show a feed including only the most recent post from every user the viewer follows." In other words: feeds are the way a third party can build their own algorithm for the firehose. Very powerful, very useful.
- ldoughty 3y agoI found this confusing too I think the interests section was to try get you to find people and feeds.. but after that, the feeds (or just the Discovery feed?) are influenced by who you follow.. so if you are offered a 'bad' (for you) starting group of people to follow, your feed will probably not be great until you find people you like (that are active) and follow them too. Also was unsure what "Follow all +" button was.. why not "Follow Selected".. and a 'deselect all'.. I had no idea who all but 2 of the suggestions were. Not going to follow a random "Computer Scientist" the system picked for me sight/posts unseen.
- jayzalowitz 3y agoAnyone else seem to observe people who previous tended to move to bluesky and kill their twitter happened to be radical and potentially dangerous politicians (I can think of one in sf off the top of my head
- Finnucane 3y ago"One" is definitely a trend.
- davidw 3y agoI've been using Threads pretty exclusively lately. It's not perfect, but it's got what feels like critical mass and is being actively improved. It'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out.
- renegade-otter 3y agoI am over social media just like I was over trying to become a mayor of something on FourSquare, wasting time on useless virtual accolades. There IS a way to use this to develop your online professional brand, but it is so hard not to get bogged down in the swamp full of below-average intelligence, bots, and now AI garbage.
- fabifabulous 3y agoNo thanks. Mastodon has been there for ages and its background is not another VC funded startup company first burning through money and then finding no real way to sustain the platform, finally turning to ads and selling user data.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoRiffing on a toot I saw this morning: Don't build your house on rented land. Especially if the rent is zero.
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- suddenclarity 3y agoSigned up in an attempt to protect my username (already taken but couldn't verify without making an account). First impression? After selecting only tech subjects, my recommendations consisted of CNN journalists and newspapers. I decided to skip them and was forwarded to the Discovery feed which consists of American politics, Elon Musk hate, King Charles hate, and furries. So many furries. I don't see the attraction. It's just a different hate bubble.
- martin82 3y agoTried it out for a while, simultaneously with Nostr. It is noteworthy that Jack basically abandoned this and went all into Nostr. Bluesky is too much of a woke echochamber and it doesn't even have a real chance at achieving its mission, which was decentralized, permissionless, uncensorable sharing of information. Unfortunately, this project is dead on arrival. I don't think it will ever reach mainstream adoption.
- ilikehurdles 3y agoBsky feels like Gab for woke folx and I find it incredibly boring because of that. The discussions are on par with reading front page of reddit comments, even to the point where the most engaged content is a meta commentary on some twitter content. Unlike reddit, filtering down the feed just doesn’t pay dividends in the way niche subreddits can. I guess it’s because the personalities and views which have been interested in leaving twitter to join bsky all fit the same template. For instance, the AI, business, tech, and finance communities are simply not there. Performance art, too. Media/politics is there, but the discourse is extremely flat.
- bizkitt 3y agoSo.. another twitter? Also, it seems to require a phone number to sign up, why?