Can't choose your own handle (it's taken).
Your handle can be your personal domain or any domain also.
Yep — tutorial and some examples: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutor...
Bluesky signups are now open to the public
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Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public
#52This 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…
Is it completely infeasible for BlueSky to federate with ActivityPub while maintaining the pros of its architecture?
If Threads, BlueSky, and ActivityPub all interconnected it really would be a great opportunity to compete on the software / UX front
Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public
#53How 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?
More, smaller networks seems like a big improvement over a handful of too-big, everyone's-there networks.
I think the "everyone's there" networks were nice due to the cross-pollination aspect. I would see random trending stuff that I didn't know I would find interesting pop up.
Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public
#54This 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…
> we're now able to commit to open federation on the production network this month as well
Aha, this is good to now. Looking forward to standing up my own PDS.
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#55Musk 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
At this point, whenever I go to twitter, it shows status updates that are years out of date. For example, compare this:
https://ubuntu.social/@launchpadstatus
to this:
Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public
#56Reading testimonials from people who seemingly enjoy Bluesky, it sounds like the main perk is its exclusiveness and feeling like the good old days when Twitter was just for hardcore social media nerds? Is that that a recipe for success and wouldn't opening up undermine it? I don't see how any Twitter clone would avoid the pitfalls that make social media like Twitter fundamentally annoying. It's not about the technolo…
This exactly. It’s not the platform, it’s the people. I think social networks work fine for small niche communities where conversion stays focused. The problem with all general social networks is that they eventually all devolve into political flame wars. Everyone is just over it.
Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public
#57Slightly off-topic on this, but are there any apps that manage posting across BlueSky/Mastodon/Threads/Linkedin?
With the fragmentation of social networks and different audiences being in different places, it's a bit annoying to have to manually post in different places (taking account of things like hashtag formats and post length limits), it'd be nice to have a site/app that helped with that.
Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public
#58Reading testimonials from people who seemingly enjoy Bluesky, it sounds like the main perk is its exclusiveness and feeling like the good old days when Twitter was just for hardcore social media nerds? Is that that a recipe for success and wouldn't opening up undermine it? I don't see how any Twitter clone would avoid the pitfalls that make social media like Twitter fundamentally annoying. It's not about the technolo…
I don't understand how people believe they just "end up" like that. You don't ever need to see celebrities and related junk online. Just follow your friends and don't follow anyone else.
Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Why do you think any halfway popular social network won't be infested with bots and commercalizers?
My hope anyways is that there are more effective countermeasures. I remember Twitter not being nearly as bad before, but that was possibly just because verification actually meant something more than "have $10" and blue checks weren't turbo-boosted.
Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public
#60This 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…
The obvious question is what your business model is. I know about your "we plan to sell domains" post from a bit ago[1], but that seems... optimistic, to me. Not sure I want to buy into yet another startup with no business model (e.g. Keybase).