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Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by blurrybird »

madeofpalk wrote: post #128
kjkjadksj wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients and feed algorithms" is a compelling proposition For the average twitter user this is probably the exact opposite of a compelling position. Tech people want more control and less abstraction. Everyone else is happy with their walled gardens and ten layers of separation from the machine code. Its why things are the way they are and not some technopunk utopi…

Twitter, previously, was the best of both worlds. A first-party app “most” people used, and then a vibrant third party app ecosystem that others, mainly power users, loved.

Threads is this now. API is almost finished / ready for release.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by andygeorge »

lopatin wrote: post #129
andygeorge wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously? Says they're all still unused in my view in the app. Dang.

It's pretty fun seeing "create scarcity" in motion. I wonder if it's a viral strategy or a way for slow, sustainable growth.

I assume the former, heh

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by mattl »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #41
afavour wrote: post #4

Too late, IMO. The invite-only system meant that the "leave Twitter" crowd split between Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. IMO none of them have ended up being great replacements.

It's so dumb. Someone please explain how a social network is supposed to succeed when it's invite-only? Hype alone won't carry it. IMO, being invite-only is THE reason Google+ failed. There were so many memes about people getting excited for an invite, getting on, and then finding only a couple people they knew were on it, if any at all. For a social network to work, it needs to be a network . Limiting on-boarding el…

Scaling is hard. Invite codes help with that. They’re not terribly hard to find, I’ve several that I’ll happily share with anyone I know from elsewhere.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by brundolf »

jjfoooo4 wrote: post #115
brundolf wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The options this creates are super accessible to non-technical people. You can go on the app store right now and take your pick of bsky clients, and you can browse/search different algos from within the app and keep a list of your favorites and swap between them, it's all very user-friendly Most of the biggest complaints people have about twitter are client-side problems. So just having an ecosystem of clients (and t…

Choice is only good if the options are differentiated and easy to understand. A bunch of algo and client options sound good for someone who is already a committed user, but for a new user it just complicated the onboarding experience. Not to mention, it’s unclear what the incentive to put real resources behind any of these clients is.

It doesn't complicate the onboarding process though, because there's an official client and a default algo. That's Bluesky's whole thing: sensible defaults and easy onboarding, so it can be "just twitter" if you want it to be. But the open protocol and ecosystem that give you more options if/when you want them, and put pressure on the official ones to stay good

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

#145

Post by autoexec »

>JavaScript Required This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.

Not for me I guess. When there's a nitter for bluesky (nuesky?) maybe I'll check that out.

It looks like at least some of the text from the post is still visible maybe

> ( 1.60 is rolling out now (2/5) Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login! You can finally share your quality posts with the group chat or in articles. If you don’t want the Bluesky app to show your posts to logged-out users, opt out in the Moderation tab. 2023-12-22T18:59:01.633Z)

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

#146

Post by omoikane »

mminer237 wrote: post #48

It still doesn't seem to have a public feed though, so you can only view individual posts. I will say as someone has an invite: you're not missing out on anything. It definitely has far less activity than either Twitter or Threads, but somehow it also just has worse content. You would think they were invite-only to keep the quality high, but everything is either furry porn or hate-filled rage bait, neither of which I…

> It still doesn't seem to have a public feed though

There is one at https://firesky.tv/

I think it exists as a proof that there is activity on Bluesky. If you were looking for a feed that highlights trending posts, this is not it.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by notnullorvoid »

Until I see what Bluesky's AT protocol federation looks like in practice, I'm not interested.

Without federation it's basically Twitter with less users. And even after federation it might be Mastodon/ActivityPub with less users.

Very disappointed in the direction they took to launch. Exclusive beta, no focus on decentralization despite that being the major selling point.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by wg0 »

lopatin wrote: post #129
andygeorge wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously? Says they're all still unused in my view in the app. Dang.

It's pretty fun seeing "create scarcity" in motion. I wonder if it's a viral strategy or a way for slow, sustainable growth.

I guess more of the later. But yes, its impressive, clean and feels much responsive than the now Twitter.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by npunt »

rglullis wrote: post #132
npunt wrote: post #116

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Twitter clones thus far have all been cover bands with a different (speaker) stack. Focus seems to be entirely on the backend protocol side - important for decentralization but fixing only part of the problem. I haven't seen much in the way of innovation on the UX itself, which is what I'm really interested in. I guess its a mix of a) why mess with success, twitter-like design is proven to work, b) a lack of experime…

> which is what I'm really interested in. Whenever I see comments like these, my immediate thought is "How interested are you, if you had to put a dollar figure on it?" Also, you are missing alternative (e): availability bias. Maybe you haven't seen a lot of innovation around UX not because people are not trying, but because those who tried to experiment with different UX were aiming at such a niche that completely f…

At least for me, I've spent the last ~3 years designing new feature ideas for twitter and twitter-like products as a hobby and been involved in various communities working on these issues. Ways to improve quality of comments, reduce conflict, improve context, build media literacy, etc. I need to get around to publishing these ideas but have definitely put real work in. This is the only one I've published in blog form [1], tho I've put bits of others out on twitter itself over the years. Fwiw I used to run product/design for a social media co and have on and off run communities all the way back to bbses.

As far as I'm concerned the innovation just isn't there in the core loops and UX of twitter-likes, it's all circa 2008 stuff.

[1]: https://nickpunt.com/blog/deescalating-social-media/

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by tedunangst »

h0l0cube wrote: post #106
brundolf wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bluesky is an open protocol

And by the looks of the sign up process you can make your own provider, or move your data to another 3rd party at will

What are some of the top alternative providers?
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