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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by ChicagoDave »

FreeTrade wrote: post #54
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)

The users are doing the blocking, not Bluesky.

We’re just slamming the door in the face of Nazis and fascists.

It’s my individual right to avoid assholes.

Not censorship.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by ChicagoDave »

glowiefedposter wrote: post #56
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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Yes!

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by interweb_tube »

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…

The other key feature there has been proactive platform moderation -- truly bad actors have been banned early & you can block a whole list of bad-faith accounts at once.

AT proto seems like it would be perfect for a wikipedia-style fact check organization.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by ggddv »

glowiefedposter wrote: post #56
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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The thing correct information doesn’t change so it will feel like an echo chamber to people who have been taught being sold a new idea each week is the same as “challenging yourself.”

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by pndy »

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).

Mastodon typed in almost any search engine points to mastodon.social; in some cases joinmastodon.org shows up on top which still suggests mastodon.social but has a distinguish "pick another server" button on right side.

Bluesky by default creates account on bsky.social, while there's barely noticeable button with icon that allows you to provide another server.

An ordinary user will head to what it'll find in the search results, fill out credentials and log in. It won't change the defaults if it actually notice there's a possibility to do that at all. Not mention a mass user needs to be aware in the first place that there are other instances/servers, and you can interoperate with these just like with email providers. Neither mastodon or bluesky explains that in a simple discoverable fashion - which IMO should be done long ago.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by nostrfanboi »

Retric wrote: post #33
homebrewer wrote: post #3

You would think people would learn from their mistakes and not move onto another centralized platform backed by VC money, but here we are.

We already have a wildly successful open protocol for communication, email. People also want the advantages of centralization.

Have you tried setting up and running an email server the past decade? Email is horribly centralized.

Nostr is the way. It will take time but it's sufficiently decentralized. Doesn't require DNS. Users hold their own keys. Fairly easy to run a relay. It's also a trust network, with encryption out of the box, so I think it will become a usable successor for email+GPG.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by ayhanfuat »

Kelteseth wrote: post #48
ayhanfuat wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Then you clearly follow the wrong people. I do not have this issue...

Are you sure? I followed the Bluesky link on your profile and immediately saw two screenshots of Elon’s tweets.
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