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bluesky is a popular-kids club with zero transparency unless you're in the club
I’m still waiting for an invite.
I am happy to send you an invite! Message me :)
Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
"we shut down new user signups so we could focus on the really important stuff: acting as a frontend for namecheap"
At least they have a sign up. Threads is just an empty website in the EU right now.
I'm not trying to be offensive in any way with this comment.
Why did you try Threads?
This question comes from a person who doesn't have a twitter account, so if the answer is that you want to replace your twitter usage with something else, could you elaborate the value you get out of these platforms?
Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#233lol, and I thought Mastodon was a conspiracy by Big Janky Off-Brand Domain Name.
but really, Bluesky users have spent the past two months going wild with novelty domain names. You can pay $1 for the first year for all manner of stupid funny names, and people do.
For anyone here that would be easy - but for non-techies you can see the use case for a service that does it for them.
This really is just providing a convenient service that this specific userbase demonstrably wants.
If anyone else wanted to do the same they could, nobody's stopping you. But this is an actual service for Bluesky's users.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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.
good question, but a lot of small Mastodon instances know their users and the users would happily throw in a few euros* to help them as needed.
* probably
Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#235I 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…
Hundreds of millions of people writing and interacting with each other is exactly the moat Twitter had when BlueSky was started.
Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#236Unnecessary, pointless, expensive features are precisely how you define the inverse of the original Twitter vision. Bare minimum but fast message passing as a social communication layer. If all of these new platforms are trying to become a better or more bloated version of what Twitter has become , then they will never catch on like the viral tool that Twitter originally was. None of them learned the lesson of google…
Actually, bluesky has supported custom domains since the very beginning (the Namecheap deal is the part of this story that is actually new/noteworthy) and it is very widely-used. I am unsure what % of active users are using their own domain, but it is not insignificant. The domain feature hasn't blocked dev on more important things. In fact this deal is (according to bluesky) their first attempt at something to gener…
Yeah, using your own domain name is an interesting solution to the nomadic identity problem. I still want to look at how Mike Macgirvin from Hubzilla/Zot is handling it, because he seems to be obsessed with solving this particular issue.
I was still naively thinking in terms of redirects from your old instance to your new one, but that's not going to help you if your old instance vanishes in thin air.
Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
> path to 1 billion people Also Insta has 1bn+ active MAUs and Meta us leaning heavily on Insta for Threads
Sure, but those 1 billion people could have signed up for Twitter at any point in the last 17 years if they were interested. Twitter already maxed out its user base, so I'm skeptical that there's a 1 billion potential here.
Either way, Threads runs very lightweight, and can easily go 10 years with no revenue.
Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least they have a sign up. Threads is just an empty website in the EU right now.
In practice bluesky is also an empty page
Is it? I've heard people claim they got more value out of it than Mastodon already. Which would surprise me because Mastodon seems to be working extremely well. (I don't use it myself, but I follow a lot of people on Mastodon.)
Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#239Unnecessary, pointless, expensive features are precisely how you define the inverse of the original Twitter vision. Bare minimum but fast message passing as a social communication layer. If all of these new platforms are trying to become a better or more bloated version of what Twitter has become , then they will never catch on like the viral tool that Twitter originally was. None of them learned the lesson of google…
I wouldn't say it's unnecessary. Owning your identity is the worst problem in modern social networking. You have one identity. You. The idea you need to keep registering, providing emails, phones to everyone, picking usernames (often different) which can be impersonated, in order to create account which then can be banned at whim by private company moderators and so on... this is not the way.
I don't know if domains are the way either, but at least they're a name reservation system that's established and works. At the current price of a domain, it comes down to $1 a month, which is a great value if you can use it to identify yourself with, authenticate, authorize and own your own digital identity.
It can also be cheaper, because if this is a mass service for every person out there, scale will reduce some of the cost.
Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
#240The dirty little secret about Bluesky is that it's actually pretty goddamn great on the inside. I have never in my life had normals asking for a social media invite, but I currently have a list of fourteen people waiting for a code. It works, feels, tastes, shares, and functions like Classic Twitter without the waves of repugnant users or miserably overbaked features. Collaborative mute lists make screening out horse…
> had normals asking What are "normals"?
I think he's referring to the mundanes.