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Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by drivingmenuts »

ge96 wrote: post #126
chevman wrote: post #55

Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control. It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago. https://joinmastodon.org/

I wonder how the world would change if ads just disappeared I get things have to be sold but damn it's out of control

A lot of free services would disappear if they were unable to make some sort of ad-based income. Some people would be unable to do anything except whatever was provided by their government without ad-supported services (thinking Google products, YouTube, etc.) It would eventually go back to the way it was in the old days - a few actually-useful-but-struggling sites, a few paid-for services that might or might not survive, a passel of vanity sites and some incoherent cranks and weirdos (Time Cube, etc.).

Heaven for some, but mostly boring for everyone else after an hour.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by khaki54 »

jsheard wrote: post #6

On the topic of Bluesky stats, I just learned that blocks are effectively public via the API, so there's a hall of shame ranking the most blocked users on the site: https://vqv.app/blocks.html

Kind of shows the echo chamber. Looks like the Jordan Peterson account, which has never posted anything, is around number 14.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by drivingmenuts »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #176
dyauspitr wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Federated and no control just means it’s going to be overrun by trolls at some point?

They already had 8 years to overrun it.

It's probably a bit more work than a lot of trolls are willing to put in. Trolling doesn't require a lot of thought or creativity, but setting up the infrastructure does.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by winwang »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #69
aucisson_masque wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a hall of shame Usually that's the opposite that happen with these kind of people. They are going to look forward on being the at the top of the leaderboard, like a child doing stupid things only to get noticed by its parents.

Assuming blocks themselves are never childish. Jordan Peterson is on the list and he doesn't even use the site: https://bsky.app/profile/jordanbpeterson.bsky.social

There was a script I once saw for Twitter where it blocked all users within some follower/followee radius of a set group of people.

For public discourse, I wonder what the right level of agreeable "echo-chambering" is.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by quantadev »

xk_id wrote: post #184
quantadev wrote: post #173

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It will never stop being funny to me how you can take an argument in American politics, directly apply it to the opposite side, and it will still be mostly true.

Which would imply conservatives are big censorship advocates? Maybe rethink that.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by jrflowers »

quantadev wrote: post #180
jrflowers wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anybody is wondering what sort of political viewpoints quantadev is talking about, one example is they posted that The Onion and Alex Jones are the same https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138285

I love having "followers" like you, jrflowers. Did you ever figure out how to setup that URL that pulls up just my posts?

This site doesn’t have followers but if you see somebody POSTING in the VOICE of a guy wearing a sandwich board that says CHRIST WAS A LIZARD it only takes two clicks to see the other stuff they voluntarily posted publicly here (username -> comments)

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by nicce »

crazygringo wrote: post #160
nicce wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The infrastructure has been rock-solid. I’ve never seen a service grow this fast without any noticeable outages. The architecture and execution are obviously informed by serious experience at Twitter, but it’s also clear that management is giving them everything they need to do the job right. The world has changed quite bit. If you have deep pockets and you can use AWS etc., it isn't a major problem anymore. Howeve…

> it isn't a major problem anymore This is not true at all. The hard part isn't cloud vs. on-premise, it's the architecture. Most sites can either put all their data in a single massive database, or else have an obvious dimension to shard by (e.g. by user ID if users mostly interact with their own data). But sites where the data is many-to-many and there's a firehose of writes, of which Twitter is a prime example, ar…

> But sites where the data is many-to-many and there's a firehose of writes, of which Twitter is a prime example, are a nightmare to scale while remaining performant and reliable. Every single user gets an updated live feed of tweets drawn from every other user -- handling millions of users simultaneously is not easy.

It is definitely not easy. But the core problem of this has been discussed since the release of Facebook. There are very obvious architectures which you can follow and then fix the bottlenecks with money. The cost is still the most relevant problem, which I wanted to say. The current cloud enables much higher optimization threshold and error margin.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by bradgessler »

bradgessler wrote: post #61
stavros wrote: post #41

Does anyone know any good makers I can follow on there? I'm mostly interested in making stuff, less in monetizing stuff, so I don't want to follow so much entrepreneurs (ie people who like making stuff to make money) as makers (ie people who like making stuff for its own sake). Any good lists? If anyone wants to follow me on there, I'm @stavros.io.

I have a Ruby hackers starter pack at https://bsky.app/starter-pack/bradgessler.com/3laa47lbuwb2r — Edit: replaced cable modem link with starter pack link

hahaha.... oops, I had to send that to Comcast because they're now thinking if I restart my modem for the third time, it will fix the problem.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by arp242 »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #69
aucisson_masque wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a hall of shame Usually that's the opposite that happen with these kind of people. They are going to look forward on being the at the top of the leaderboard, like a child doing stupid things only to get noticed by its parents.

Assuming blocks themselves are never childish. Jordan Peterson is on the list and he doesn't even use the site: https://bsky.app/profile/jordanbpeterson.bsky.social

It has an "Impersonation" tag: "Pretending to be someone else without permission." Dunno if that's accurate though.

But let's be real: Jordan B. Peterson on Bluesky is not going to be a different Jordan B. Peterson than he is anywhere else. If you don't want to interact with Jordan B. Peterson on e.g. Twitter, then you probably don't want to interact with him on Bluesky either.

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