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Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by the_gipsy »

mg wrote: post #10

What's funny is that while Twitter wants you to log in and goes at great length to prevent you from reading anything when not logged in, the situation is exactly the other way round with Bluesky. They limit who can sign in, but openly publish all data via their API. So one could use an AT protocol client to read, or a web based client like this one: https://firesky.tv/ I just made an account, let's see how this thing…

It's funny? Have you not seen the same phenomenon a million times now? Every social network-y thing does this. Once they get traction, it gets closed down slowly but steadily. See facebook, twitter, reddit, instagram... whatever bluesky is, its faith is set.

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Post by the_gipsy »

Zetice wrote: post #69
bushbaba wrote: post #34

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No guarantee they don’t change this when they get bigger and shift from user acquisition to revenue & profitability. Bluesky is VC funded and there’s expectations of revenue growth down the line.

The guarantee is that the AT protocol doesn’t work that way. They literally could not, technically. You own your data, the entire protocol is built around that basic fact.

This sounds exactly like the web3 nft bullshit - "everything is decentralized" but there only one client or server making it in fact centralized.

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Post by riffic »

dragonwriter wrote: post #187
riffic wrote: post #129

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PBLLC still has shareholders for the record it's not entirely clear who are the specific shareholders of Bluesky PBLLC other than a vague mention it was "the team itself". https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1518707603232083968

> PBLLC still has shareholders Strictly speaking, no, they don’t, and neither do regular LLCs. Corporations have shareholders, partnerships have pattners, and LLCs have members.

thank you for the correction!

I'm not sure where to find clear "membership" of the PBLLC but I assume they have to file paperwork showing something where they are registered. I haven't been paying too close attention but I'm sure some people are interested.

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Post by vidarh »

CharlesW wrote: post #169
vidarh wrote: post #147

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It probably would, but Mastodon is now at around 13M accounts, but with ca. 3x as many instances as when it hit 10M, so it's increasingly better prepared for large user surges. E.g. signups have hit ~6x what they were earlier today but it's still only an average of one signup per instance per hour.

Great! I’m a fan and I hope Mastodon/ActivityPub continues to grow. I just wish it wasn’t prohibitively complex/expensive to host an instance with a few thousand members.

I think Mastodon will continue to be expensive to host, as the way it's engineered is not well suited to cut costs, but I also think we'll see a lot of innovation in "slimmer" services that will be "Mastodon-compatible enough" but lighter weight. Ideally we'll eventually see some sort of standardisation of a client-server API (rather than just depending on people ad-hoc reimplementing Mastodons API), but that may take longer.

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Post by replwoacause »

kens wrote: post #146

Since Bluesky is invite-only and there's a lot of clamoring for invite codes, it's easy to think that you're missing out if you're not a member. I'd like to offer a different perspective, that most HN readers would probably be happier on Mastodon than Bluesky. In particular, Bluesky is very small, has a strange vibe, and has almost no technical content or people interested in it. The number of participants on Bluesky…

Really enjoyed reading this well written take. Thanks.

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Post by replwoacause »

psionides wrote: post #162
TheRealPomax wrote: post #112

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Not sure I'm going to click on something called skeeet.xyz, especially not if, looking it up, that's just another redirector

Skeet is how posts are unofficially called on Bluesky, from sky + tweet ;)

Thanks I hate it

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Post by replwoacause »

DennisAleynikov wrote: post #53
publius_0xf3 wrote: post #48

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Seriously, what is with Silicon Valley people turning into insane cranks over the past year? Is there a ketamine fad causing brain damage among them?

It might just be their opinions mature with time. These aren't exactly outlandish opinions

No it’s the opposite. Nobody is accusing them of being too mature.
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