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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by moomoo11 »

anttiharju wrote: post #172
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

Sorry I gave one like 2 days ago. I think it has a 14 day cool down.

Hopefully someone else here can give you one and set you up today :)

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by shafyy »

Bluesky is going down the VC path, and we all know how this ends ups for social media companies. Sure, they'll try to monetize without ads. But it's unclear to me what kind of revenue stream would generate enough cash. Sure as hell it won't be this Namecheap thing.

In my opinion, the only way to go for a social media company is to be a non-profit.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by threeseed »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #127
threeseed wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a related problem for Twitter which reminds me of the Altavista/Google days. Zuckerberg has said that they won't run ads until there is a credible path to 1 billion users. So for a year or more it will be Threads with no ads. And Twitter with according to their newly hired CEO "full-screen, sound-on" ads.

My Threads feed is full of massive brands promoting itselves already. Since you can't control the feed those are basically free ads. The only major difference will be that in the future those brands will be paying Meta for the privilege. Get the brands addicted with free engagement early on and then once they're good and hooked you start charging.

The chronological feed is coming soon at which point that will not be an issue.

And as mentioned you can simply Mute/Block them.

But there is going to be a year or more of Threads being ad-free whilst Twitter is not. That's a game changer.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by tguvot »

Hamuko wrote: post #113
prakhar897 wrote: post #108

I don't get the argument that scaling is harder for startups than for Big Tech. 1. At Meta, you had to use internal "approved" tooling to build you product. which is far worse than products in open market. BlueSky can put it all on serverless like AWS Lambda and call it a day. 2. If funds are an issue, then raise more. There's no way around it. you had to scale sometime. Even if you optimise well, you'll still burn a…

Meta has a $750 billion market cap and just slapped Threads on top of the Instagram database. How do you achieve the same with a startup and AWS Lambda?

Lambda is a web scale

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by _nhynes »

guraf wrote: post #96
routelastresort wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

90% of my timeline is on Threads is all stuff I don't even follow, while Bluesky is exactly what I ask for. Decentralized platforms are the only way to go, even if it's the centralized version and vision. The Zucc way of ramming (overly) suggested content and ads down your throat will die if there are alternatives.

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A less uncharitable interpretation of the parent comment is that decentralized platforms are the only way to guarantee personal freedom, save a saintly BDFL or government regulation. Not likely to happen.

The “even if it’s the centralized version” is an acknowledgement that some users may prefer centralization, or the platform is still too young to usefully decentralize. As long as there is a way out, or a credible plan, freedom is preserved.

The third Matrix succeeded due to choice—even at the subconscious level.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by starttoaster »

politician wrote: post #176
rmuratov wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Blockchain does not by itself solve identity. You can build identity solutions atop a blockchain, sure. But “built as a blockchain” does not at all hint towards your blueprint to solving this problem.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by ryan29 »

esperent wrote: post #147
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…

> as simple as changing a few DNS settings For 99.9% of users this is a not at all simple.

It can be made simple, especially if it’s a DNS record that’s unique to a platform. For example, if you set up an MS365 account and are using Cloudflare for DNS, there’s an OAuth like flow where MS will auto-magically update your DNS.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by blitzar »

troupo wrote: post #152
_cenw wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least they have a sign up. Threads is just an empty website in the EU right now.

> Threads is just an empty website in the EU right now. And it should stay that way. CJEU declares Meta/Facebook's GDPR approach largely illegal: https://noyb.eu/en/cjeu-declares-metafacebooks-gdpr-approach... Threads won't launch until compliant with GDPR and Digital Markets Act: https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-...

> Threads is just an empty website in the EU right now. And it should stay that way.

Not launching in the EU is a massive red flag on the data hoovering ambitions facebook have for threads.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by tsimionescu »

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

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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 only stable life-long identity system I know of are state-assigned identities (with the court system as a last line for complex cases).

Apart from that, I think per-service identities are the best that can be hoped for. If I choose to engage with Facebook, I have to trust them to some extent anyway, so trusting them with my identity on Facebook is probably good enough. If I want to establish that some Twitter identity is the same as some Instagram identity, I can do so by directly referencing them from one another. I don't think we can do much better than that without involving the state.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

starttoaster wrote: post #186
politician wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Blockchain does not by itself solve identity. You can build identity solutions atop a blockchain, sure. But “built as a blockchain” does not at all hint towards your blueprint to solving this problem.

That's the same for other alternative distributed name systems like DHT based naming. For example, how should the DHT be bootstrapped, should there be any universal root zones, etc etc. GNS and IPNS are both DHT based naming systems which make different choices, much like there are various blockchain based naming systems out there.

Anyway my understanding is that Bluesky uses DIDs for exactly that reason, to punt the actual naming implementation and avoid silly internet fights like this.

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