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Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by emptysongglass »

kens wrote: post #146

Since Bluesky is invite-only and there's a lot of clamoring for invite codes, it's easy to think that you're missing out if you're not a member. I'd like to offer a different perspective, that most HN readers would probably be happier on Mastodon than Bluesky. In particular, Bluesky is very small, has a strange vibe, and has almost no technical content or people interested in it. The number of participants on Bluesky…

Yes, this has absolutely been my experience too. I'm defending the protocol pretty vociferously downthread but the experience itself is exactly what you say: not the meaty tech talk I can go on Twitter or Mastodon for.

I was there for the skeets and hellthreads and whatever other meme of the day: it's pretty awful and if you're not participating, you get no likes, because the memelords are the ones racking up high scores.

No likes in themselves is not bad but they're a proxy in this case for real discussion, which is what you'd want if you're talking about React or Go or Rust or whatever.

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by ShadowBanThis01 »

KomoD wrote: post #151

I don't like the fact that this links to somewhere we can't even view, I think the whole "invite-only" thing is stupid as hell.

This post is spam, attempting to build hype, and has no business on HN. But don't dare say that...

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by [deleted] »

the_gipsy wrote: post #74
mg wrote: post #10

What's funny is that while Twitter wants you to log in and goes at great length to prevent you from reading anything when not logged in, the situation is exactly the other way round with Bluesky. They limit who can sign in, but openly publish all data via their API. So one could use an AT protocol client to read, or a web based client like this one: https://firesky.tv/ I just made an account, let's see how this thing…

All market penetrators do this, bait and switch. Some people never learn. The answer is (truly) open protocols.

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Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by ineedasername »

Avshalom wrote: post #24
warning26 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're getting slammed hard, but I recommend creating an account on either http://lemmy.world or http://kbin.social . (Personally I prefer Lemmy due to it being closer to Reddit in design.) They both run OSS Reddit clones and appear to be gaining the most traction. As a bonus, they're also interoperable with each other, and any other server that installs the software.

they also federate with mastodon

I like the idea of Mastadon, but it reminds me a bit of the early internet days, mostly ‘95-‘05 (which is when I feel things began their subtle shift to monolithic services).

And at those times, compare to now, there were hurdles to finding communities (discoverability) and having them interlinked in a “whole is greater than sum of parts” fashion.

I think Mastadon actually addresses a little bit of that, but also the discoverability especially is going to be difficult with the major search engines having vested interests that don’t align with surfacing results from less centralized platforms.

For example I have never once had a search return anything in the first few pages that links to a Mastadon instance, and can’t even remember that last time I had a useful result from of conversations from a traditional style forum, but I know they still exist because I can find them if I explicitly search for that sort of thing

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by KomoD »

ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #172
KomoD wrote: post #151

I don't like the fact that this links to somewhere we can't even view, I think the whole "invite-only" thing is stupid as hell.

This post is spam, attempting to build hype, and has no business on HN. But don't dare say that...

I have a pretty strong feeling the hype will die down and it'll become like clubhouse, but hey I might be wrong, who knows.

Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by [deleted] »

kens wrote: post #146

Since Bluesky is invite-only and there's a lot of clamoring for invite codes, it's easy to think that you're missing out if you're not a member. I'd like to offer a different perspective, that most HN readers would probably be happier on Mastodon than Bluesky. In particular, Bluesky is very small, has a strange vibe, and has almost no technical content or people interested in it. The number of participants on Bluesky…

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Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic

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Post by esmevane »

emptysongglass wrote: post #166
esmevane wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't seem like a mitigation to what the poster above you said, to me. It just means that if I don't like it, I don't lose my posts when I move. That's nice but it offers no guarantees in the face of a corporate actor harming the overall federation of a network.

You and others in this thread aren't grokking what this means in practice: it means that users are transparently redirected to your new home wherever you are. If a corporate juggernaut tries to harm the network, folks just pick up and move their identity. The protocol bakes in treating the provider like a dumb pipe. The protocol puts the power in the hands of the users and at any time they can just up and walk away,…

No, I definitely get that. Where your data is, or is not, has no relevance to a network member choosing to behave badly or harmfully against that network. Nor does it actually impact what they can do to the network itself. It simply provides you with durability concerning your identity.

It is unrelated.

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