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Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

the_duke wrote: post #11

I 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?

I 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?

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Post by Mistletoe »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #16

How 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?

Probably 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.

Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by radlad »

jakebsky wrote: post #15

This 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 decent…

> 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.

Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by kevinmchugh »

I'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.

Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by jakebsky »

the_duke wrote: post #11

I 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?

There is some work by others to make this possible:

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed

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Post by muglug »

jakebsky wrote: post #15

This 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 decent…

Thanks for all your hard work!

Twitter is an obvious influence on Bluesky.

Was the team able to benefit from the experience of working on Twitter, or were most of the big problems novel?

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Post by marxisttemp »

jakebsky wrote: post #15

This 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 decent…

Why not use ActivityPub?

Why should we trust Dorsey again?

What is one good reason to use Bluesky over Mastodon?

Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by Retr0id »

the_duke wrote: post #11

I 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?

> I guess the target for Bluesky isn't so much the "regular Facebook user", more the nerd.

I think it's more "regular Twitter user". It has implementation details that interest nerds, but my read is that the target audience really is regular users.

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