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The comic on this post is a whole lot of mess. Talking about moderation? Talking about "what if I want to leave"? Those sound like (1) work for me, and (2) why would I want to leave if it's so great? Uggh. And the fragmentation into silos continues.
If you're on an instance in a federated network and the instance's admin decides that they don't want to keep hosting it, you don't really have an option to stay.
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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…
What is going to make or break the alternative social media networks is the institutions. If/When newspapers (not journalists) start setting up their own instances, if companies put up support accounts on their own domain, if influencers start mirroring their social accounts on their own sites to try to their push their own brand... then I'll start believing that we have a chance.
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…
Y'all didn't email me that signups were going to be public.
Y'all didn't email me when signups actually went public. I found out about it here.
...And, let's see.. Yep, my handle is taken.
Are there mobile apps for Blueky? When I type bluesky or bsky into f-droid, it comes up blank, and I'm not seeing a custom repository or even just an apk download mentioned on the website either. I thought it was like Mastodon except invite-only (till now), so was expecting a similar client ecosystem, but apparently it's more like Twitter was: open ecosystem closed software? Or is it like Tildes whose goal is to have…
All the single word handles seem to be taken! :(
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Did you possibly enter the prefix +49 as part of the number? It seems to expect a number without the country prefix, starting with a number like "174" or whatever your provider prefix is...
I tried all sorts of variations of my number. It just won't take it. I expect their validation is wonky/buggy. I used to work for Nokia and remember talking to people responsible for parsing phone numbers. This is not a trivial problem. Anyway, it hard rejects +49176..., 0049176..., 0176..., 176...; it correctly normalizes each of those to +49176... and then rejects the number. My number is fine. Their validation isn…
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
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We'll see! The history of funded companies popularizing open protocols is not without precedent. I'm inspired by Netscape, which was the VC-backed company that made the web happen.
Saying they "made the web happen" is just nonsense. They had one of several popular browsers, and one of several popular web servers. As much as I stayed up late to download new Netscape betas, had they never existed the web would still be just fine, and the customers of the ISP I ran at the time would have just used another browser.
Since IE was developed specifically to counter the threat of Netscape - it was also defined by Netscape.
What other browsers of note were around in that period?
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Doesn't this go against the comic in the post that claims that it's easy to block what you don't want to see? Also that it's an open network? Why not just let everyone in if the moderation tools are good? I definitely would never give my phone number to a social network.
The SMS verification requirement is only for the Bluesky operated PDS host. Soon (this month) it will be possible for others to self-host their own PDS hosts that do not have this requirement.