Could be a huge boon to the self-hosted movement, might reach the critical mass of users that are willing to fund open source development of self-hosted cloud, just BYO domain
its only a txt record, not hosting a node (etc)
Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#22I can’t wait to read the tell all book about Bluesky during this three day period when Threads hits a hundred million users and Bluesky makes the most important strategic decision of its existence.
Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#23Looks great. But maybe the effort should be going towards scaling up so they can remove the invite only requirement, Threads is going to actively eat Bluesky’s lunch while it remains.
The lunch is ate.
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#24Is Bluesky a Threads clone?
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#26Bluesky 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.
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#27What’s exactly the benefit of this other than making the domain space more toxic than it already is with parking, squatting, etc?
You want to have all of that toxicity--if it must exist--concentrated in a single place. Every new service shouldn't create a new namespace with its own hoard of asshats squatting usernames, and every time I join a new service I shouldn't have to jostle to get a username compatible with the ones I already have. If you use a hostname, you figure out your hostname once and then know that all subsequent services you ever use will have a single correct username.
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#28I just want auto-renew to work properly sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, lost a couple of high value domain names even tho they've had my CC for years.
Long time namecheap user without any autorenew problems, even with insufficient funds forcing them to retry.
You can also add funds to your account in advance, just got an email suggesting that for an upcoming renewal.
Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#29Looks great. But maybe the effort should be going towards scaling up so they can remove the invite only requirement, Threads is going to actively eat Bluesky’s lunch while it remains.
The lunch is ate.
IMO the jury is still out. Twitter was always more than just a UI format, Twitter-shaped text posts with my Instagram friends doesn’t scratch the same itch.
Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#30This makes it a tiny bit more like app.net. Not in terms of control but in terms of floating the idea of paying an annual subscription fee.