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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by syntheweave »

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…

Calling early winners is a longstanding pastime of tech...the Internet protocol stack was the dark horse candidate in telecom circles back in the 80's. Apple was "done for" in the mid-90's, in the same boat as Commodore, Atari and all the rest.

The reason to engage like this is basically a mindless chasing after of hierarchy: you want everyone to know who their overlord is now. This is very important to a certain kind of mind in a certain kind of position, because they will start engaging with that as if it were already true and make business decisions presuming the winner...and to be right, everyone else needs to go along with it. Otherwise they're the weird guy at the meeting, talking about the also-ran.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by anttiharju »

moomoo11 wrote: post #154

I didn’t really understand the domain thing when I signed up with my invite. After that I never used it again. Honestly all these social media apps like Twitter suck. I never used Twitter nor social media much, probably won’t change. Personally, I’m out. Y’all have fun and enjoy.

I'd like to have fun and enjoy, can you share an invite? My email's in my profile

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by eddythompson80 »

tsimionescu wrote: post #144
devjab wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Except of course when for whaetever reason you won't be able to pay your DNS provider for some time, and you'll lose your identity to someone else. DNS is really not a good platform to build personal identity on.

DNS is good enough for companies, governments, schools, organizations, military etc. Not to mention that most other identities are tied to a DNS identity of some sort. Sure it’s not ideal as something completely trust less and distribute like PGP, but it’s been 33 years and no one can come up with a decent UX for that because it’s not really possible. $8 a year is a barrier to entry, especially if you consider people in economies where that’s significant. But that’s when you tie your identity to someone else like gmail.com or yahoo.com or bsky.social. When you can afford it, you get to manage your own. it’s good enough.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by FlyingSnake »

prakhar897 wrote: post #26

Bluesky is dead. Nobody is going to move again. They had the chance of outrun threads but slept on it. Whatever they release now, will never get initial users to get it off ground.

It might not be dead, but it has definitely dropped the ball.

My timeline on Bsky somehow always show people taking a dig at other rivals, and self congratulations. People regularly diss twitter, Mastodon and now the feed is full of people dissing on Threads. This bsky-is-not-twitter identity that bsky network latches onto will be detrimental to itself.

Also there are no federated servers anywhere in sight so far.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by riffraff »

devjab wrote: post #133
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…

Mastodon allows you to both run a server on your domain and move to a different one.

This isn't unlike running your blog and I'm pretty sure there are solutions like WordPress.com that run it for you with your domain.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by politician »

rmuratov wrote: post #167
tsimionescu wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except of course when for whaetever reason you won't be able to pay your DNS provider for some time, and you'll lose your identity to someone else. DNS is really not a good platform to build personal identity on.

What is good? Public GPG keys?

The identity layer should be built as a blockchain. Ignore the cryptocurrency connection, focus on the distributed decentralized identity ledger.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by ryan29 »

c7b wrote: post #143

One concern: suppose Bluesky does take off - isn't that going to compound the existing problem with domaining?

I doubt it. There are so many TLDs now that everyone can have a reasonably decent domain on a thematic TLD. All of those have premium pricing schemes that are unattractive to domainers for the really good domains.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by joshbert »

b1n wrote: post #135
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.

Only issue with that thesis is that HN hates 100% of the things that it comes across.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by greyface- »

stubybubs wrote: post #164
lapcat wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They had the chance of outrun threads but slept on it. I don't think that's a fair criticism. Threads is backed by a $750 billion market cap megacorporation, while Bluesky just announced a seed round of $8 million, a mere drop in the bucket for Meta. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan

Dorsey's net worth is something north of $4B, not to mention all the connections he has for investment. Raising a paltry $8M was not due to the difficulty of procuring money; not to attempting to scale rapidly was a deliberate choice. It's quite possibly going to end up a very bad choice. Seems pretty clear typical users don't care about decentralization, verification for themselves, or algorithm customization at all…

Jack provided the initial funding 2 years ago, but despite all the chatter to the contrary, it doesn't appear to me that he's involved in the company much these days. On Bluesky, he's not very active, and it's not clear he believes in the platform. His most recent post (https://bsky.app/profile/jack.bsky.social/post/3jy3cth45t22r) was 23 days ago, and states that Bluesky "isn't a [Twitter] replacement". He seems to be much more into Nostr these days, judging by his tweets.
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