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Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups

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Re: Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups

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Post by Angostura »

ZanyProgrammer wrote: post #40
Angostura wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried Mastodon? I'm not not claiming it's a direct replacement, but it is similar in many respects

It feels empty, like people created accounts then left after a week since there was never the critical mass to support a constant buzz of information. And (this is just my weird very subjective opinion) Mastodon often feels like the unholy child of 2010 Tumblr and Stackoverflow.

That's odd - I'm sitting looking at the federated timeline and the main problem is the speed at which it is zipping past.

Re: Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups

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Post by _8j50 »

Angostura wrote: post #50
_8j50 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moderation, hosting fees, legal liability, responsibility for accounts (people invest a lot of time in creating content tied to your instance), security,etc... it is federated but all the legal,security, infra,moderation,etc... people across the world that support twitter and the like are no longer there for your mastodon instance but the only thing there that scales down/up with respect to the number of active users…

But you're just saying that the people who run the servers have to run the servers. You don't have to run your own instance - just join one you fancy. So yes, the difficulty then becomes "is this instance being properly run?" but thats not unique to Mastodon, it also applies to things like Twitter - as we've seen. Just without the option to jump to a better Twitter instance - because there is only one.

I agree with that, except Twitter is one, mastodon is many. For example, my first attempt to use mastodon failed because all the instances wanted an email address and just giving that alone or using temp email was not worth it for me. With twitter, it is one "instance" and I don't have to sample a dozen to figure out which one is right so because it is just one, I setup an email and even a temp burner phone for it in the past. But the risk of having to move to another mastodon is weighty.

Re: Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups

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Post by ZanyProgrammer »

Angostura wrote: post #51
ZanyProgrammer wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It feels empty, like people created accounts then left after a week since there was never the critical mass to support a constant buzz of information. And (this is just my weird very subjective opinion) Mastodon often feels like the unholy child of 2010 Tumblr and Stackoverflow.

That's odd - I'm sitting looking at the federated timeline and the main problem is the speed at which it is zipping past.

That's a very weird phenomenon that I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's certainly a disorienting user experience.

Re: Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups

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Post by CSSer »

_8j50 wrote: post #46
CSSer wrote: post #18

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Thoughts on custom feeds?

Not sure what that is. Like a news+activity feed? I think outsourcing recommendation engines to 3rd parties and letting users subscribe to the recommendation engine (which might include ads for incentive) of their choice would be neat. People want stuff recommended to them. For example, I would want to subscribe to good news sources that are both global and US centric and any infosec related recommendation sources. O…

Yep, Bluesky has that. You can even make your own!

Re: Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups

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Post by ineedasername »

madeofpalk wrote: post #25
ineedasername wrote: post #23

Curiosity mostly: is there any public knowledge on the sort of tech stack they use?

https://github.com/bluesky-social

That’s interesting, thank you. Some interesting projects. But for my question (I should have clarified in it) I was thinking about their infrastructure stack as well.

In general I’m just curious about where the scaling bottleneck is right now.

Re: Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups

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Post by BrianHutch »

CSSer wrote: post #33
BrianHutch wrote: post #15

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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’s wild. I’m not a habitual social media user/checker, so my thoughts should be interpreted within that context. Anyway, I don’t think anyone can fairly say they’re artificially growing the platform. I’ve watched them fight bots that attempt to autofollow everyone on the entire platform and engineer solutions for blatantly NSFW content filtering (but not blocking as that’s not a direct concern of theirs). They’re t…

Great insights, thank you.

Re: Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups

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Post by jusoren »

SoKamil wrote: post #4

Here, take some invite codes and use them when the sign-up becomes available: bsky-social-xlf73-5hoai bsky-social-jvtfz-ona55

Thought i could be the fastest grabbing this after they enable singnup again but both are gone by the time. Thank you though for the generosity, instead of selling it like other people out there.
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