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Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by coldpie »

beanjuiceII wrote: post #120
nerdjon wrote: post #114

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I would be very curious how exactly this is being said and if it is just simply stating an "opinion" or if it is being used as a way to attack people and purposefully start a fight. If it is the later 2, than them being "eager" is a good thing since that just feeds to toxicity and is a major reason that people have been pushing to move away from Twitter in the first place. Even the first one I can understand since I…

whats wrong with an argument?

Some people want to live their lives without having to justify their existence to strangers every time they appear in a public space. It's exhausting. There are plenty of spaces where you can have those arguments. It's OK to have spaces where those kinds of arguments are not welcome, too.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by wesleytodd »

apitman wrote: post #90
strogonoff wrote: post #66

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Bluesky’s attitude seems logical and their reasoning aligns with my thoughts exactly. If techdirt’s article is to be believed, Dorsey’s departure has to do with going from an extreme to an extreme—from a traditional social monolith to a pure protocol—whereas Bluesky chose to pursue not only the protocol, but also “the app” as the face of that protocol for the ordinary user, and let’s face it: the ordinary user does n…

What's your issue with invite-only periods? Is there a better way to throttle signups while you scale a system early on?

But if you use web scale tech you can scale to infinity on day one right? :eye-roll:

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by mjmsmith »

echelon wrote: post #43
leoc wrote: post #13

https://bsky.app/profile/leocomerford.bsky.social/post/3l7v6... To help the hard of clicking, this time I have pasted it all for you: Leo R. Comerford ‪@leocomerford.bsky.social‬ Why was it decided not to build on any existing content-addressable networking system (IPFS or whatever)? November 1, 2024 at 12:39 PM ‪Leo R. Comerford‬ ‪@leocomerford.bsky.social‬ · 23d (Not implying that this was the wrong decision, it’s…

"skeet" is such a terrible term for this. It's like mastodon "toot"s. Using bodily functions as core infra terminology is off-putting and feels like a bit like a juvenile boy's club. I get that some people find it funny, but it alienates people. We should just call these "posts". Same thing with names like CockroachDB and GIMP.

Huh, I thought it was a reference to shooting: fling your hot take into the sky in front of an audience ready to blow it to smithereens.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by kingofheroes »

marcosscriven wrote: post #102
miningape wrote: post #99

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Johnson's Law: The more attention something receives, the bigger it's area of impact becomes.

I thought that was the Streisand effect?

The Streisand is "the more you try to hide something, the bigger its area of impact becomes".

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by davexunit »

altcognito wrote: post #117
paulvnickerson wrote: post #111

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Bluesky is decentralized and has no central algorithm, so I'm not sure where you're getting this misinformation from. I'm happy to be shown otherwise.

While I definitely don't agree with the GP here, Bluesky is not decentralized in any meaningful way, but they aspire to having a "credible exit" if Bluesky the company falls into the wrong hands.

https://bsky.app/profile/dustyweb.bsky.social/post/3lbkecsk3...

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by wise_young_man »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #101
extraduder_ire wrote: post #47

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Bluesky seems to use a lot of totally different domain names for each part of their infrastructure, maybe for this reason. e.g. this one is bsky.network While they're nowhere close on volume, they're certainly beating microsoft in terms of the rate they're adding similar looking official URLs.

> bsky.network Shortening your brand to 4 letters when your chosen TLD is the same length as your full brand name is such a weird choice.

I guess bsky.net and bluesky.net were taken. What’s weird is why ICANN allowed .network TLD at all when .net already existed, was shorter, and meant for that.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by diggan »

nutanc wrote: post #110
philipwhiuk wrote: post #106

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You're walking headfirst into the copyright, CSAM, pornography hole of content moderation here.

Agreed. I assume this will open up Bluesky to a lot of potential legal problems. But will it be any different from accesing the content using the app as the content is anyway hosted. That said, just the other day I was thinking, is the reverse possible. I have a web site/blog. Use RSS and then the RSS updates are posted to a handle on Bluesky. I would assume that's a lot more useful?

> That said, just the other day I was thinking, is the reverse possible. I have a web site/blog. Use RSS and then the RSS updates are posted to a handle on Bluesky. I would assume that's a lot more useful?

This is trivial, I'm currently doing this for https://bsky.app/profile/aemet-bot.bsky.social which reads a bunch of RSS feeds from AEMET (Spain's national weather service basically) and posts warnings to the feed if there is any warning above Yellow.

The code for managing this is about ~200 lines of Rust code.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by crowcroft »

the-chitmonger wrote: post #103

I wasn't around for this specific era, but the way users of BlueSky are able to dive deep into technological waters reminds me of how people talk about learning HTML for the first time while using MySpace. Social media is a more saturated market now than before, but I wonder if we'll see a new generation of programmers sprout from BlueSky.

MySpace and old forums walked you up a ladder of abstraction from, I'm adding some text into a box and it shows up on the webpage -> I'm adding some images as well -> I'm adding some BBCode/Markup and now things look really custom -> I'm writing HTML and CSS -> I'm writing complete scripts.

Bluesky does the first step and then it's a great big leap from there imo.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by chefandy »

thesuitonym wrote: post #113
philipwhiuk wrote: post #106

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You're walking headfirst into the copyright, CSAM, pornography hole of content moderation here.

How is this any different than the regular hole of content moderation they're already in?

I don’t have a well-considered answer, but a) I imagine being able to host a phishing site on an official domain from them using their SSL cert is problematic, and b) my gut says that as soon as you start hosting arbitrary files— e.g. zip files— and browser executable JavaScript with your domain in there, that’s a different level of possible content. I guess the question is whether or not the disposition of a social media network makes that more problematic than it does with, say, Google drive.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by tomrod »

irusensei wrote: post #92
apitman wrote: post #90

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What's your issue with invite-only periods? Is there a better way to throttle signups while you scale a system early on?

The invite-only system established the main Bluesky instance as a big circlejerk. It worked with Orkut back in the day where the internet was new and untainted by culture wars. Bluesky is lefty twitter now and I want no business with that platform.

> Bluesky is lefty twitter now and I want no business with that platform.

I love hearing people say this, because in reality Bluesky covers most of the political dimensions one wants to subdivide a population by except the most toxic of participants. Also, most of the academics have moved to Bluesky because Twitter became toxic / suppressed speech dramatically and at the whims of one Mr. Musk. As per usual, where the "lefties" are the "righties" follow (to use the parlance of the prior comment) be is social media, good policy, you name it.

Plenty of conservatives are there, such as Lincoln project folks, right libertarians, and even National Review & Reason IIRC. But I guess these folks don't count these days as conservative (despite definitionally being so, just not aligned with modern US Republican policy planks)? Not sure.

Anyhow, I'm enjoying Bluesky for what it is -- a new social media platform that isn't fully encumbered by bots and nonsense for a bit.

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