Musk has done a lot of questionable things, but does anyone remember how actually unusable twitter was before the sale? Musk Twitter has its own set of problems but Jack has proved he has no idea what he's doing
Bluesky signups are now open to the public
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#32What does it offer over Mastodon, and following hashtags as topics ?
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#33All the single word handles seem to be taken! :(
You don't need a bsky.social handle. Bring whatever domain you want.
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#34This 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?
None of us worked at Twitter actually, but we chatted with a lot of folks who did.
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#35I'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 stand…
The network effect is very strong.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jack directed Twitter to fund Bluesky when he was CEO of Twitter, but Jay Graber is the CEO of Bluesky and the technology & app was created by Jay and her team (which I'm a part of).
Thanks for the clarification. Is he not involved in it anymore?
He's on the board but he's never been involved directly
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#37I'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 stand…
It will be interesting to see how the fragmentation in the post-Twitter landscape eventually consolidates. To your broader point, I think it's an interesting time where there's trepidation over just becoming Twitter 2.0 versus making some improvements that improve the experience of the platform. Even before Elon, Twitter definitely had some pain points, such as repetitive gif-replies and toxic political stuff, as you alluded to.
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#38This 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?
Dorsey isn’t even involved. He kicked it off but hasn’t had a hand in it for a very long time.
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#39With the promises of AT Protocol I wonder what the reality of starting your own competing site to bluesky would be if it were to become as popular as Twitter. I've also been looking into LBRY too and have the same question in regards Odysee.
I'm sure we won't know until someone tries. I have a feeling there might be some unforseen network effects or barriers that build up over time to prevent someone from coming along with a better site. I'm just curious to see what they are and how insurmountable they might be.
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#40Pretty ironic that when Twitter was imploding Meta launched a competitor that was fully compatible with ActivityPub/Mastodon while the team dedicated to building an open competitor (Bluesky) created a proprietary protocol that nobody uses.