Bluesky - the Social Network where everybody posts screenshots of the awful things people post on other social networks!
Bluesky now has 30 million users
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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#22You would think people would learn from their mistakes and not move onto another centralized platform backed by VC money, but here we are.
This misses the point much like saying people should use Linux because it's open source. Open source is great, but at the end of the day, people will use software that they're both capable of using and that solves their problems. If you don't tick both of those boxes, the rest of it doesn't matter. Social media is the same, owning your data is nice, but if the barrier to both entry and maintenance is too high for a regular user, it's not going to happen.
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#23half the comments so far talk about bluesky being similar to x ie private companies. However AFAIK the use of the "AT protocol" seems to me to be a major difference https://bsky.social/about/faq . I am really curious to know how I am wrong in that. As a long time X user and now on bluesky i can tell that there is a huge difference in the content which makes it clear that the platform was pushing accounts with specifi…
shallow knowledge on my side, but it seems that the AT proto requires some fancy relay node that, as of now, are only hosted by big corps, so no one has a a fully independent bsky instance
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#24half the comments so far talk about bluesky being similar to x ie private companies. However AFAIK the use of the "AT protocol" seems to me to be a major difference https://bsky.social/about/faq . I am really curious to know how I am wrong in that. As a long time X user and now on bluesky i can tell that there is a huge difference in the content which makes it clear that the platform was pushing accounts with specifi…
Can you prove to us that it is possible to interact with someone on Bluesky without being registered on Bluesky?
Threads use e ActivityPub but we know it's bullshit and that they will shut down the network as soon as possible. Bluesky is the same shit. AT protocol is just a honey pot.
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#25half the comments so far talk about bluesky being similar to x ie private companies. However AFAIK the use of the "AT protocol" seems to me to be a major difference https://bsky.social/about/faq . I am really curious to know how I am wrong in that. As a long time X user and now on bluesky i can tell that there is a huge difference in the content which makes it clear that the platform was pushing accounts with specifi…
Doesn't mean anything. Facebook used to support XMPP.
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#26Bluesky - the Social Network where everybody posts screenshots of the awful things people post on other social networks!
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#27Yet another shitshow-in-waiting. I know Mastodon isn’t as polished but leaving one frying pan to get into another is a lost opportunity. I failed to convince somebody to move to Mastodon recently.
I can't explain it fully but mastodon seems more confusing than bluesky, maybe too much emphasis on "you can have any server" which then creates more questions than it's necessary. It has also more features and terms.. while bluesky seems more efficient at getting you living in good old twitter like world which is people (at least I) missed ?
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#28You would think people would learn from their mistakes and not move onto another centralized platform backed by VC money, but here we are.
Something else is at work. We’re teaching the public on how to move platforms. The general public has a serious problem with tech inertia.
We in tech have not even made a 1-click port everything to somewhere else please button (need to build the somewhere else too).
There’s a lot of work to be done.
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#29You would think people would learn from their mistakes and not move onto another centralized platform backed by VC money, but here we are.
Twitter/X has shown to be no more than a self-promotion and PR platform as soon as it became popular. Just disposable snippets (pretty much the definition of a 'twit') to drive views. The same will apply to Bluesky. It does not matter whether it is centralized or not, VC money or not, as long as it serves that purpose. In fact a centralized system probably serves this purpose better as it is easier for the users and for content reach.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
And it didn't involve a really confusing question as a barrier to entry.
Bluesky asks about which server to use on registration like mastodon.social does. For me the difference seems to be better marketing for Bluesky which makes people want to deal with the change and somewhat enjoy it rather than see every obstacle as a pain. Bluesky does have some advantages like starter packs (and network effect now that it has so many accounts).
Not sure if we're using the same method, but when I go to sign up it asks me for a username, then selects @bsky.social as my full username.