Is Bluesky still the only software which supports the AT-Protocol?
Is it open source so you can run your own instance?
Does Bluesky federate with other AT-Protocol instances?
Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups
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#12If Twitter did the same thing, would it be spun so positively?
Twitter got a lot of grace when it had growing pains 17 years ago when it was new. Remember the Fail Whale? It got a name it was handled so positively. So yes, Twitter did get positive spin when it did the same things.
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#13If Twitter did the same thing, would it be spun so positively?
When a new ice cream place opens and gets overwhelmed because the McDonalds across the street can’t get its ice cream machine to work more than 2 hours a day, it would pretty funny to see a bunch of people dressed like Ronald McDonald whining that the new place gets treated differently.
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#14If Twitter did the same thing, would it be spun so positively?
Twitter has had over 17 years - nearly 10 years as a public entity - to get its act together.
You don't expect toddlers to behave themselves, but you do expect 17 year olds to be a little more responsible than toddlers.
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#15As someone who’s had an account for awhile, I probably contributed to the problem that led to this action. You see, I’ve been sitting on a handful of invite codes because it’s not like people have been begging me for them. That was true until yesterday anyway. The Twitter fiasco revived discussion about alternatives, so next thing I know I’m handing out invite codes to people in HN comments who are showing interest i…
I've been wondering if BlueSky has been growing too slowly, doling out invite codes too cautiously as people move onto other platforms and sort of give up on it.
Looks like I'm wrong. Other platforms don't seem to be scratching that twitter river-of-news itch for me.
How has BlueSky been for you? It's just been such a have & have-nots situation to me (from the outside). I have no real idea if people are enjoying how it works other than just having it.
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#16Is Bluesky still the only software which supports the AT-Protocol? Is it open source so you can run your own instance? Does Bluesky federate with other AT-Protocol instances?
Bluesky is and will always be the only atproto using instance, because there's no open source involvement, running an instance is prohibitively hard and expensive. They run under the pretense of open standards, but are pretty much the only ones with the scale needed to run it.
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#17Is Bluesky still the only software which supports the AT-Protocol? Is it open source so you can run your own instance? Does Bluesky federate with other AT-Protocol instances?
Of its exact kind, yes. Generally, no. For example, there’s a clubhouse-style audio application that operates on the protocol, and there are lots of little interesting projects that interface with the protocol in some way at a high level.
The federation aspect of Bluesky/the AT-protocol hasn’t truly been launched yet as far as I can tell. If you’re familiar with BGP in DNS, the AT-protocol has a similar equivalent that will be the most expensive and resource-intensive part of the stack to run. It’s expected that there will be a few players in this space and many higher level players paying for access over time. As it currently stands, I believe that Bluesky is the only one running this part of the show right now though as they continue work on finalizing this part of the protocol and platform. They put it roughly as (paraphrasing), “federation hasn’t been switched on yet, we’re still testing,” and I think they’ve said it’s an alpha/beta state.
I’m just an outside observer with an account who has read some material and followed the on-platform discourse by the team directly. If someone more directly affiliated with Bluesky would like to critique me, I’m more than open to it.
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#18I gotta say, I am disappointed so far at both bluesky amd mastodon. They both have interesting ideas to solve problems with technical means but mastodon wants to transfer a lot of problems to whoever runs the server and to the user and bluesky sounds like it might get popular a bit but I have yet to see something about it that makes regular people care about it. Both platforms are nice for people that care about elon…
Thoughts on custom feeds?
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#19If Twitter did the same thing, would it be spun so positively?
When a new ice cream place opens and gets overwhelmed because the McDonalds across the street can’t get its ice cream machine to work more than 2 hours a day, it would pretty funny to see a bunch of people dressed like Ronald McDonald whining that the new place gets treated differently.
The workers wouldn't care. Ray Koch's fanboys on the other hand would have been livid.
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#20And instead of putting that in the sign up page, you have to go through the entire registration process to inly get the error at the very end.