To be honest I wrote them off when they missed the first eXodus with their waitlist. I thought it was a Google+ moment. Luckily there were multiple exoduses which gave them second chances.
Bluesky now has 30 million users
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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#142half 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…
You cannot run a bluesky instance on your own. The AT protocol isn't really a protocol in the same way that matrix or mastodon is. It's just an API, you know like all platforms used to have?
None of that is true
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. The quality of pictures is lower than on Twitter, which I was using mostly for porn 2. Blocking someone prevents that person from even seeing your posts, which means that from the perspective of a lurker, it's best not to follow anyone, not to engage with anyone at all, not to make anyone aware of your existence, because 1% of people you follow will block you just because they're having a bad day 3. The Python cli…
1. Sorry for you 2. Don’t almost all blocks behave that way? Twitter’s always did. Seems Elon, in his infinite social acuity, has confused “block” with “mute?” Vast majority of users want to be able to actually “block” people 3. Baby Jesus cries very easily, he’s a baby
> Don’t almost all blocks behave that way?
No
> Baby Jesus cries very easily, he’s a baby
I've never seen official baby Jesus merch with him crying
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. Sorry for you 2. Don’t almost all blocks behave that way? Twitter’s always did. Seems Elon, in his infinite social acuity, has confused “block” with “mute?” Vast majority of users want to be able to actually “block” people 3. Baby Jesus cries very easily, he’s a baby
> Don’t almost all blocks behave that way? No > Baby Jesus cries very easily, he’s a baby I've never seen official baby Jesus merch with him crying
> I've never seen official baby Jesus merch with him crying
You might have been distracted attending more immediate matters, Mr. Anal_Reactor.
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Honest question - is it from a repost from someone you follow?
Nope, straight from him
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#146Earlier 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.
There is not a bespoke setup that you need to implement atproto. In fact, there are already a variety of applications making use of it (some to a higher degree than others). There are community implementations of app views, relays, PLC directories, and PDSes already in the wild, and - although I admittedly have a biased ear on the conversation - developers tend to appreciate the _lack_ of complication when implementing things.
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#147half 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.
My account is hosted on my own PDS that I run on my own. My public repo can be viewed here https://pdsls.dev/at/did:plc:oisofpd7lj26yvgiivf3lxsi, and you can see the requests being made directly to that PDS. The account is also viewable of course on the Bluesky app, https://bsky.app/profile/hailey.at.
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#148And with that, I think the door on Mastodon gaining widespread adoption is closed forever. We had a very brief window when the Twitter Exodus was happening and non-techies were giving Mastodon a try. But it wasn't good enough, as far as giving the Twitter refugees what they wanted to see, and so they simply moved on to the nearest Twitter-With-The-Numbers-Filed-Off platform and stayed there instead. There's probably…
But to be honest the UX of Mastodon is just unusable. Following someone is not a click on Follow button. It's the most basic feature I can think of. And it's complicated there. It just couldn't work. Bluesky just did it better.
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#149Contrary to what we could thought, Bluesky doesn't asks about which server to use on registration. It's not federate.
There are thousands of third party PDSes on the network https://github.com/mary-ext/atproto-scraping?tab=readme-ov-f...
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#150My experience with bsky.app is good so far. It's more like twitter was before 2015: I've had enjoyable conversations with a few different people, blocked some trolls, and discovered some new history books to read. The XBlock Screenshot Labeler moderation service has mostly kept the reposted screenshots to a minimum. When reporting a post you can choose which service to inform, so a screenshot would get reported to XB…
I use both of them. My experience is that they are sort of mirror images on opposing ends of the political spectrum. I don't want to see politics at all, so for now Bluesky is inferior because it has way fewer people in my interest areas.