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Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by ngrilly »

marxisttemp wrote: post #29
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?

Questions 1 and 3 are answered in the paper.

Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by skybrian »

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…

Any plans to improve the search engine?

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Post by WaffleIronMaker »

ghaff wrote: post #115

I sort of wonder if the whole short-form social media era just sort of faded away. After Musk essentially destroyed Twitter, it feels like--although various people casually migrated elsewhere--overall, it feels like a lot of people decided that a Twitter-like thing just wasn't part of their daily lives any more. Sometimes there's a forcing function that takes people off their automatic pilot and it feels like Musk ca…

I agree that, overall, short-form social media is leaving the mainstream with Twitter's decline. However, I still really enjoy short-form media.

I can't speak for BlueSky, but I've been enjoying Mastodon a lot. Following people I like has given me a high enough signal to noise ratio that I often find myself saying "Hey! Check out this thing I found on Mastodon!". My friend just joined because of this, and they've been enjoying it too, specifically for programming, infosec, and queer memes (caveat N=2).

Idk. I hope there's a future for it.

Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by rvnx »

rglullis wrote: post #96
jakebsky wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bluesky is in good financial shape for quite some time based on existing funding. And we're also working hard to be sustainable, which we believe is entirely feasible given our small team. But we're also ensuring that everything required to make the network sustainable over time is completely open.

Sorry, this is a non-answer. Is there a business model in mind or not?

A bit macro and optimistic view about sustainability (in general, not specific to Bluesky):

If everything goes according to the prediction of economists for 2024, a light crisis should decrease consumer confidence in the US.

One of the solution to re-energize the economy might be to lower interest rates.

Which means that if interest rates go down in 2024, companies are going to be able to borrow at extremely low cost.

In such environment, does the question of business model even matter ?

If your task is to raise debt, what you need is to sell a dream, not have a way to generate money.

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Back to Bluesky:

The bigger danger for the company now is most likely its own users.

"Open ecosystem"/"Freedom"/"Free-speech" users tend to be greedy and consider everything should be free, and at the same time are very active when it's about criticizing.

The "normies" of Twitter / Instagram, are likely higher spender because of the importance that vanity / self-promotion has in their life.

One key could be for Bluesky to focus more on content, than on technology.

Even on Telegram, people join groups and people, they don't really care if the source-code is here or not, or who controls what (because no matter how, this can change in the future).

Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by packetlost »

kevinmchugh wrote: post #139
packetlost wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've tried to seek out and post technical stuff but it's mostly people virtue signalling, rage baiting, and complaining about other sites.

I think a lot of that is on mastodon fwiw, and some hasn't left Twitter

I've mostly been able to curate my Twitter feed to not include that stuff. Similarly for Mastodon. The problem is BlueSky tries to add algorithmic feeds while not doing it well enough to learn that I don't want to see it.

Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by ghaff »

WaffleIronMaker wrote: post #143
ghaff wrote: post #115

I sort of wonder if the whole short-form social media era just sort of faded away. After Musk essentially destroyed Twitter, it feels like--although various people casually migrated elsewhere--overall, it feels like a lot of people decided that a Twitter-like thing just wasn't part of their daily lives any more. Sometimes there's a forcing function that takes people off their automatic pilot and it feels like Musk ca…

I agree that, overall, short-form social media is leaving the mainstream with Twitter's decline. However, I still really enjoy short-form media. I can't speak for BlueSky, but I've been enjoying Mastodon a lot. Following people I like has given me a high enough signal to noise ratio that I often find myself saying "Hey! Check out this thing I found on Mastodon!". My friend just joined because of this, and they've bee…

I still have a Twitter/X account, got a Mastodon account with the Muskopalypse, and have had a Bluesky invite sitting in my mailbox for a while. It's just clearly moved on from something that was part of my routine to eh.

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Post by biggestfan »

hedora wrote: post #93
internetter wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is because you are logged out. Please note that this is not me advocating for this practice. It has broken the web in immensely frustrating ways.

Given that it appears to be completely broken (last tweet for that account was 6 hours ago, and it's showing a 6 month old cached version), why would I bother creating an account?

When you're not logged in, the profile view shows you the most liked posts from that account, not the most recent. Not sure why.

Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by delecti »

kevinmchugh wrote: post #138
delecti wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding your edit, much of bluesky's culture is developing in reaction to Twitter, or based on lessons learned from it. That block-first attitude is a response both to the kinds of bots that are endemic on Twitter, and to the kinds of engagement-bait that made it such a mess at times. New follower looks like it might be a bot? Block. See a skeet from someone who looks like an asshole? Block. Don't feed the trolls,…

I mute annoying posters (the frequent users who already have >5k posts tend to be uninteresting to me and obviously show up more often in feeds), that makes sense to me. How goes my experience improve if I block a bot that follows me? Follower bots is a platform problem

I think it's mostly the same motivation as blocking assholes, partly "I don't want to be part of your attempt to game the algorithm" and partly "I don't want to see this".

Re: Bluesky signups are now open to the public

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Post by chihuahua »

lionkor wrote: post #14

Wow that comic invokes very unpleasant feelings for me. Super weird, way too corporate for a ... comic...? Seems confused. Their big selling point is blocking stuff you don't wanna see? Thats the big selling point? And... exploration!?

The comic feels like self-parody.

"Come with me to the wonderful land of BlueSky, where everything is *open* and *magic* and all bad trolls are blocked!"

"That's amazing! I think I'll like it here!"

"YAY!"

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