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This one surprised me personally, because we really don't do anything special. We treat posts with links the same as any other kind of post. I would guess there
by pfraze 2y ago
This one surprised me personally, because we really don't do anything special. We treat posts with links the same as any other kind of post. I would guess there's a kind of high "density" of focus from people right now; the general buzz of the moment. Also I figure our focus on the reverse-chron following feed helps with this.
We're pro open-web, pro people using Bluesky to find other interesting things. We're working on subscriptions right now (not ads) so we've got no incentive to keep people in our app. We'd rather be the lobby to an interesting world.
Also, tbh, every user has a domain name. The web -- and websites -- seems like a really valuable part of the atproto ecosystem. We're going to keep developing in that direction. See this blog comments integration[1] for instance.
1 https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3lbq7swe7d22b https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3lbq7swe7d22b
- andrewmutz 2y agoIs the plan for subscriptions that people pay a monthly fee to use bluesky? Or that people can subscribe to content creators on bluesky?
- pfraze 2y agoThe former, but the existing featureset will stay free and we won't rank up paying users. We're still nailing down the features, but it'll be things like custom app icons, profile customizations, higher-def video
- jahnu 2y agoLooking forward to paying for software I enjoy! I’m very optimistic Bluesky is going to be the counter example to the enshitification story.
- mostlysimilar 2y agoAnd the most important feature: paying to keep a good ecosystem running and supporting good software.
- sumeno 2y agoSubscriptions for additional features. You can read their general plan at https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan