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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by honzabe »

tapoxi wrote: post #35
silisili wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too late IMO. Twitter the incumbent, Threads just popped up out of nowhere with a whole heap of users. People switch when other people switch, generally. Those tired of Twitter now have an easy place to call home, there's not going to be any momentum to then want to switch again. Mastodon tried, and did get some following, but IMO is too complicated in concept for the common user. Bsky on the other hand just blew it.

Threads is federating with Mastodon, which is good for both of them.

I will link to the article that changed my mind on this: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...

It was recently discussed here at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36456233

TL;DR: it might be the 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' strategy.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by _cenw »

sigmar wrote: post #63
evanmoran wrote: post #22

I can’t wait to read the tell all book about Bluesky during this three day period when Threads hits a hundred million users and Bluesky makes the most important strategic decision of its existence.

"we shut down new user signups so we could focus on the really important stuff: acting as a frontend for namecheap"

At least they have a sign up. Threads is just an empty website in the EU right now.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by devjab »

elif wrote: post #76

Unnecessary, pointless, expensive features are precisely how you define the inverse of the original Twitter vision. Bare minimum but fast message passing as a social communication layer. If all of these new platforms are trying to become a better or more bloated version of what Twitter has become , then they will never catch on like the viral tool that Twitter originally was. None of them learned the lesson of google…

Identity management is the biggest issue with social media. I'm on mastodon, but my "identity" is tied directly to the server instance that I'm on. If something happens to that server instance then I'm basically losing my "identity". If my "identity" was tied to a domain I owned then keeping it would be as simple as changing a few DNS settings. I don't know enough about Bluesky to say if it's actually going to be an interesting decentralized platform, or if it's another social media run by a tech billionaire, but having domain names be the basis for your "identity" seems like the biggest revolution in that space.

I think that we absolutely need more of this as this gives the users ownership over their identity. Right now, if the New York Times wants to get verified on social media they rely on the platform to do so. With this it would be their own choice.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by femiagbabiaka »

routelastresort wrote: post #54
afavour wrote: post #3

Looks great. But maybe the effort should be going towards scaling up so they can remove the invite only requirement, Threads is going to actively eat Bluesky’s lunch while it remains.

90% of my timeline is on Threads is all stuff I don't even follow, while Bluesky is exactly what I ask for. Decentralized platforms are the only way to go, even if it's the centralized version and vision. The Zucc way of ramming (overly) suggested content and ads down your throat will die if there are alternatives.

I thought Bluesky was only decentralized in theory. Have alternative open source servers been released?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by b1n »

anderspitman wrote: post #111

Lot of negative comments here but IMO this is huge. The best way to keep anything commercial good in the long term is competition, and the only way to have competition with web services is if users can go somewhere else, which requires a portable identity/username and open protocols. Bluesky is currently the only platform offering both in a convenient package. Even Mastodon doesn't make it this easy[0]. [0]: https://…

HN hating on something doesn’t guarantee success but it is a prerequisite.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by dkh »

benatkin wrote: post #34
eyelidlessness wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might not be a thing for “normie” users, but the tech-overlapping crowd has been all about domain name based handles for quite a bit, and many are registering domains specifically because of it. This isn’t something they’re doing on a whim, they’re doing it in direct response to demand.

Two at symbols still seems awkward to me, and I haven't got a chance to try to adapt to BlueSky yet. So that's a no from me, as a developer.

Two @ symbols? I think you're thinking of how Mastodon works. Bluesky doesn't work that way. Your username is the domain itself, not @username@domain. If you own the domain brian.pizza, your username can be @brian.pizza. If many users will share a domain, they are simply given a subdomain -- @brian.someserver.lol, etc.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by siva7 »

dkh wrote: post #105
rewtraw wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

making it a content platform with little content. and of that sparse content, most of it is meta-commentary on bluesky itself. poasters post where the consumers are, and vice versa. Threads is on its way to bootstrapping this network effect in a way bluesky never even began to scratch due to the invite system and niche appeal

It's not like it's going to remain this way permanently, a lot is still under development. It's not just about infra scale, they are still hammering out things like how moderation will work, and that is the sort of thing best to iron out before the floodgates are opened.

Doesn't matter how good your social network product is if you don't catch the network effect early on. They are loosing a brutal battle against a billion dollar corp.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by dkh »

MarkMarine wrote: post #9
klysm wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is that any different with regular usernames? Like @mārk

I think it’s a little different. Maybe I’m just a nerd but some domains are cool and some are not.

The thing is, there is no @mark, if you have @mark on bluesky, your username is actually @mark.bsky.social. Every user is attached to a domain name no matter what, so this feature lets you at least use your own instead of theirs.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by cyberge99 »

fnord77 wrote: post #122
dkh wrote: post #116

I must say, the number of people in here saying bluesky is dead because of Threads' overnight growth is surprising and upsetting. Believing all that matters is how fast they get users is hugely missing the point. Bluesky has been taking their time in order to get things right--and getting certain things right is very important. Twitter already exists; we need alternatives because things were handled wrong. For exampl…

bluesky is a popular-kids club with zero transparency unless you're in the club

I’m still waiting for an invite.
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