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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by AntiqueFig »

nostrfanboi wrote: post #67
Retric wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by starspangled »

Is Bluesky considered better than X?

Would it, for example, purport to keep us and our feelings safe by censoring those questioning an unproven and ultimately claim made by pharmaceutical corporations and politicians they donate money to, about the efficacy of their products?

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by stiltzkin »

starspangled wrote: post #162

Is Bluesky considered better than X? Would it, for example, purport to keep us and our feelings safe by censoring those questioning an unproven and ultimately claim made by pharmaceutical corporations and politicians they donate money to, about the efficacy of their products?

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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by qwe----3 »

lkrubner wrote: post #121

The success of Bluesky has been driven, in part, by the sophistication of their system for blocking. I know this is the main thing that draws me in. There are many people who, on a volunteer basis, build block lists that I can subscribe to. I've subscribed to many of these, more than 20, to block Nazis, scammers, MAGA, crypto bots, Russian trolls, fans of Elon Musk, racists, various political causes, and more. I've b…

If you post about an opinion against female athletes competing against trans women will that put you on the Nazi list?

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by hirokio123 »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #4
hirokio123 wrote: post #2

X's MAU has reached about 570 million. I just hope it doesn't collapse under its own weight before getting there. Do they have any secret strategies to sustain it?

Can we make a meaningful comparison between the two, given that they're both private companies that could just be saying whatever they want people to hear? I mean, I have no doubt that Twitter is an order of magnitude greater in popularity, but there are so many factors at play here, especially given the number of bots and duplicate accounts in existence.

It's X, not Twitter. The good old Twitter has flown away into the blue sky.

Bots and duplicate accounts are certainly an issue, but that's also a concern for the platform operators who want to maximize advertising effectiveness. Fake numbers will never translate into real results.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by FreeTrade »

paulgb wrote: post #81
FreeTrade wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

You already could have a client that treats a block as a mute. Easier to just open an incognito tab though. > In theory, a bad actor could create their own rogue client or interface which ignores some of the blocking behaviors, since the content is posted to a public network. But showing content or notifications to the person who created the block won’t be possible, as that behavior is controlled by their own PDS and…

From that document -

>creation of reply posts, quote posts, embeds, and mentions are blocked;

This is the unmitigable censorship that can't be removed without decentralization.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by FreeTrade »

rahen wrote: post #75
FreeTrade wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having looked at a lot of these platforms, only Hive (formerly Steem) operates in a properly decentralized manner.

Have a look at Nostr: https://nostr.com/protocol

Nostr is definitely at effort at decentralization. In practice it doesn't have a way to incentive running a node (relay) so became quite centralized. Aside from that, it's quite a privacy nightmare (leaks ip everywhere) and became a vehicle to shill Lightning Network tokens.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by FreeTrade »

ChicagoDave wrote: post #61
FreeTrade wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's what your mute is for. 100% support that.

Bluesky preventing users from replying to your posts on your say-so. Yup, there's a word for that.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by FreeTrade »

ChicagoDave wrote: post #129
paulgb wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You already could have a client that treats a block as a mute. Easier to just open an incognito tab though. > In theory, a bad actor could create their own rogue client or interface which ignores some of the blocking behaviors, since the content is posted to a public network. But showing content or notifications to the person who created the block won’t be possible, as that behavior is controlled by their own PDS and…

I’d argue this one feature is the core reason Bluesky has 30 million users.

There is no doubt censorship is popular. It's not for me though.
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