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Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by grepfru_it »

haakon wrote: post #159
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.

Domain names can also be taken from you if your adversaries are powerful enough. It happens regularly to controversial websites.

As someone who worked in e-commerce with high value brands, this is entirely true. If you even slightly infringe on a brand name, they will throw lawyers at you and the simple threat of bankruptcy will have you handing over the domain. I’ve seen it happen too many times to count.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by agentgumshoe »

tsimionescu wrote: post #144
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…

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.

Or what if your name is John Smith? do you long for the days of being permanently known as JohnSmith21048

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by kalleboo »

copperx wrote: post #101
evanmoran wrote: post #22

I 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.

I'm surely bikeshedding, but isn't Bluesky a terrible name for a social network?

Everyone made fun of "Twittr" and "Tweets" when it was still new

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by layer8 »

gls2ro wrote: post #157
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…

IMO social media websites lives or dies by network effect if threads get hundred million people in a short period and they start to write and interact with each other then that a good moat for them. Might be that BlueSky is not trying to be a popular social media platform. But if they want to then having right now their signup closed is a very bad decision. It is already hard to keep track of where each discussion is…

Yet users use HN, Discord, and many other forums. I think "there can be only one" is what's misguided.

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Post by pferde »

jelled wrote: post #104
evanmoran wrote: post #22

I 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.

I tried hard to get a bluesky invite a few months ago. Even put a few bids on ebay hoping to get one for less then $100. The fomo has since passed. Probably wouldn't bother signing up if I got one today.

Really? In my social network on Mastodon, several folks could not get rid of them even for free - nobody wanted them.

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Post by layer8 »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #64
dkh wrote: post #40

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Well Threads currently doesn’t even have a chronological, non-algo feed I can look at, whereas on bluesky you can have any number of feeds with whatever algo/logic you want. I don’t think I’ll be using Threads much while the one and only feed is the way it is. And there’s more differences than just that, it’s a bit too soon to do a declaration of death I think

You can customize feeds but there's barely any real content getting posted because the user base is so small. Some people with hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter barely get any kind of engagement on Blue Sky. The dopamine hit just isn't showing up for big time posters.

The last two sentences actually sounds like a good thing.

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Post by fragmede »

ryan29 wrote: post #187
esperent wrote: post #147

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> 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.

Exactly. By partnering with Namecheap, there's a golden happy paved path that's just: buy domain, press "work with Bluesky" button, and there is no step three. Most people can handle that and those that can't already have friends they rely on for that kind of stuff.

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Post by varjag »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #206
rewtraw wrote: post #84

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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+ ?

Google+ (and other GOOG social media upstarts) was… speical in its user conscription model and failed because of it. A place where they throw you to after handcuffing you on YouTube can't be too desirable.

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Post by anileated »

tsimionescu wrote: post #194
eddythompson80 wrote: post #173

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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…

Yes, DNS is good enough for organizations (though I should note that governments don't rely on DNS registrars, they run their own). The crucial difference is that organizations can hire people to care about those things, or hire lawyers to ensure they can be recovered if accidentally lost. And in fact many of these organizations change domains in the longer run for various reasons. So even there, DNS is often only us…

There can be two kinds of identities: your actual legal one and ones you should be okay with losing.

People keep devising more and more involved ways to maintain identities other than your legal one, but if you think about it you can still lose any of those ways (your domain name, your private key, etc.) and in the end no one should use them for anything serious.

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