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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #45
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fundamental difference is that X is focussed on its "For You" feed while Bluesky focusses on "Following". They are similar tools, but the different approach means one is far closer to "self-promotion and PR" than the other, and I don't think it's inevitable that Bluesky will descend to X's depths.

What's the point of posting on those platforms? Self-promotion and PR. The difference you highlight is very superficial and ultimately it is the same thing.

The difference is your audience. Are you talking to people you know or are you talking to 'the world'. If I'm talking to a bunch of my friends in the pub, I don't consider that "self-promotion". If I'm stood on the street corner saying exactly the same kind of things, it would be. In fact, that means I think that posting a comment on Hacker News is more self-promotion than posting a comment on Bluesky. Which I do.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by donohoe »

Pufferbo wrote: post #38
agumonkey wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This seems to be left out of the conversation when comparing Bluesky with the wider fediverse. The AT protocol relies on a bespoke setup and is complicated to implement. ActivityPub is comparatively simple, and can be implemented on pretty every thing with just a few endpoints.

If ActivityPub is “simple” then that’s a recent’ish development. It used to be a mess.

I would imagine AT gets easier to use/setup given time too.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by FreeTrade »

ChicagoDave wrote: post #41

No Ads. 100% user-centric moderation controls. Blockity block! Block lists are a godsend. This is what made Dorsey quit the board and abandon the platform. He actually believed the masses wanted a libertarian platform that forced you to listen to assholes. We don’t. No opaque algorithms controlling your timeline. Feeds to create topic centric timelines. Decentralized. You can host your own data. Other hosts can offer…

Muting is fine, blocking is censorship. You'll know it is decentralized when someone can run an instance and remove the blocking and censorship. (Never, I predict)

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by dmd »

Krssst wrote: post #18
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #9

Earlier 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).

> Bluesky asks about which server to use on registration

No, it does not.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by glowiefedposter »

ChicagoDave wrote: post #41

No Ads. 100% user-centric moderation controls. Blockity block! Block lists are a godsend. This is what made Dorsey quit the board and abandon the platform. He actually believed the masses wanted a libertarian platform that forced you to listen to assholes. We don’t. No opaque algorithms controlling your timeline. Feeds to create topic centric timelines. Decentralized. You can host your own data. Other hosts can offer…

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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by askl »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #46
ayhanfuat wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. I saw way more Elon and Trump posts on Bluesky than I saw on Twitter.

I saw Elon posts on my following feed (whatever X now calls it) even though I wasn't following him. I even got notifications for them! I don't really know how anyone can think that's acceptable.

At least blocking him still works.

(I wish the number of users who blocked an account would show up next to the number of followers)

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