Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky • Hacker News Board

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by benatkin » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 6:58 AM UTC

lapcat wrote: post #119

eddythompson80 wrote: post #88

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What was great about it? Its model made no sense tbh. Pay $50/year for an API key to a twitter like platform that nobody is using. Anybody can create an app, but you have to pay them separately. The branding made no sense, “app.net” a microblogging platform? It felt like the only people who ever signed up to app.net were ex-third party twitter developers who felt burned by twitter’s 2012 changes. Their development tr…

> What was great about it? Technically, app.net was a full-fledged Twitter clone, with twice the character limit of Twitter at the time. It was every bit as good as Twitter. As a centralized service, it didn't have the annoying, confusing friction of federated Mastodon, and it wasn't nearly as primitive as Bluesky, which is still very bare bones. The best part was the community. Almost all of the toxicity of Twitter…

app.net was supposed to make sense as a name because it was supposed to be like a Sandstorm or Chrome Web Store for social apps, with a feed engine like getstream.io at its core.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 7:00 AM UTC

treyd wrote: post #196

devjab wrote: post #133

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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…

>If something happens to that server instance then I'm basically losing my "identity". This is why Mastodon instances should be run by user-owned nonprofit cooperatives so that there's accountability on the day to day operations to the people who depend on it and there's policies around continuity of service. This doesn't have to be hard, and it already fits into existing legal frameworks.

This would require people to pay, which is a non-starter for most users.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 7:02 AM UTC

blitzar wrote: post #188

troupo wrote: post #152

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> 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.

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

Not really. It just means they don’t want to wait for EU compliance to launch. It’s fairly standard to have an EU lag for feature releases, in the same way there is a lag for releasing certain content in Asia or financial products in the United States.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by DoItToMe81 » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 7:04 AM UTC

Namecheap is the worst company possible for this, because it's trivial to trick them into removing domains. Here's a reminder that a troll managed to get them to remove domains, through Twitter, by claiming that they were run by Russians.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 7:07 AM UTC

nba456_ wrote: post #14

Bluesky trying to go the way of Clubhouse with their invite-only clownshow

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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jazzyjackson » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 7:09 AM UTC

rewtraw wrote: post #84

dkh wrote: post #43

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Everyone on bluesky loves the invite system because it has ensured growth doesn’t overwhelm still-developing features like how moderation works, it has encouraged people to generally invite non-assholes since their own reputation is at stake, etc.

making it a content platform with little content. and of that sparse content, most of it is meta-commentary on bluesky itself. poasters post where the consumers are, and vice versa. Threads is on its way to bootstrapping this network effect in a way bluesky never even began to scratch due to the invite system and niche appeal

Please, did network effects help Google+ ?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by corobo » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 7:11 AM UTC

DoItToMe81 wrote: post #204

Namecheap is the worst company possible for this, because it's trivial to trick them into removing domains. Here's a reminder that a troll managed to get them to remove domains, through Twitter, by claiming that they were run by Russians.

Could you back that up? The irony of anyone accepting that Namecheap fell for a "trust me bro" with a source of "trust me bro" is funny, but I'd also like to read more

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by the_gipsy » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 7:11 AM UTC

dkh wrote: post #100

guraf wrote: post #92

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> I currently have a list of fourteen people waiting for a code. That tends to happen when there's an exclusive club, people want to peak in. It is, in no way, an indication of the quality of the platform. > the waves of repugnant users or miserably overbaked features. That tends to happen when there's hardly any users at all. The "repugnant" or "normals" will flock in all the same, if the platform ever takes off. >…

They intend to not move to ads. This domain name feature was described specifically by bluesky as the first attempt at bringing in revenue from other means

So their business model is... exactly like twitter blue?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jazzyjackson » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 7:16 AM UTC

HHC-Hunter wrote: post #85

Can anyone answer me this, where is the funding for bluesky coming from?

"Bluesky’s seed round was led by Neo, a community-led firm with partners like Code.org co-founder Ali Partovi and former Twitter PM Suzanne Xie, the company noted in its announcement. Joining the round were various angel investors, including Joe Beda (co-creator of Kubernetes), Bob Young of Red Hat, Amjad Masad of Replit, Amir Shevat, Heather Meeker, Jeromy Johnson, Automattic, Protocol Labs, Sarah Drasner, Katelyn Donnelly, Ali Evans, Stav Erez, Kris Nóva, Brad Fitzpatrick, Abdul Ly, and others."

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-s...

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by n_ary » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 7:19 AM UTC

Somehow, this BlueSky reminds me of Okuna(previously Open.social). It was invite only, very enthusiastic community iniviting only handful sane(non-arehle) people and everyone was suggesting good features. Founders were committed to non-ad revenue via various premium features etc… and then slowly community died down slowly, posts stopped, early users inactive for months and one day it just closed door with a small message that it is hard to build social network etc etc…

I hope BlueSky doesn’t go in the way of Okuna(and lot of similar ones before it).