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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 numpad0 »

rmuratov wrote: post #167
tsimionescu wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What is good? Public GPG keys?

PKI can authenticate a message to a key, but can't resolve human name to a key unless it'll be highly centralized, well moderated and not cancellable. Maybe if a user just couldn't choose the ID at all, that could destroy the motive to spoof an ID, and solve the problem?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by troupo »

inpdx wrote: post #166
troupo wrote: post #155

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> while Bluesky is exactly what I ask for Not exactly. They can't even show you full timelines: https://bsky.app/profile/dholms.xyz/post/3jzsdcorxx42n

Trivial to code up a custom feed to show however long you want.

wat?

Also: I'm definitely not going to code anything?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jslpc »

cyberge99 wrote: post #140
fnord77 wrote: post #122

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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.

Same with me, signed up for the waitlist months ago. Even asked around about buying an invite code but that just seemed a bit sketchy for me, it's so easy to get scammed doing that.

I'd love an invite eventually so I could try it out and really form an opinion on the whole Threads vs Bluesky vs Twitter drama, but I fear it's going to take much longer and I'll lose interest entirely. Which is a shame because I actually really like Twitter and have actively used it for 10+ years, but man Elon is making it really easy for me to jump ship somewhere.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by tick_tock_tick »

ranguna wrote: post #230
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #203

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> 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.

> fairly standard to have an EU lag For obvious reasons, like the reasons the person you replied to mentioned: privacy violating features block apps like Threads from entering the EU market. That's a good thing.

No it's just that often waiting for legal to validate you're ok to run in the EU isn't worth waiting around for. Better to launch in the USA and deal with the EU as needed.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jslpc »

areoform wrote: post #231
cyberge99 wrote: post #140

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I’m still waiting for an invite.

I am happy to send you an invite! Message me :)

Not the person you replied to, but I'd also be interested if you have any! I just sent you a message on Twitter to the link in your HN profile because I'm not sure how to private message here, I apologize if that's too forward!

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by 26fingies »

layer8 wrote: post #214
gls2ro wrote: post #157

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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.

I think over the past couple of decades the market has proven out that there can really only be one in a niche

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by bowsamic »

devjab wrote: post #133
elif wrote: post #76

Unnecessary, 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…

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…

> Identity management is the biggest issue with social media.

I have to be honest, I can think of many far bigger issues with social media, namely, bullying, harassment, misinformation, and addiction, among others

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by bowsamic »

routelastresort wrote: post #54
afavour wrote: post #3

Looks 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.

90% of my timeline is on Threads is all stuff I don't even follow, while Bluesky is exactly what I ask for. Decentralized platforms are the only way to go, even if it's the centralized version and vision. The Zucc way of ramming (overly) suggested content and ads down your throat will die if there are alternatives.

> 90% of my timeline is on Threads is all stuff I don't even follow

Most people want this though. They don't just want to see people they follow, they want to be served an endless stream of takes and fight videos

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by notahacker »

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.

Not half as easily as social media handles though...

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by dkh »

the_gipsy wrote: post #208
dkh wrote: post #100

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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?

I mean, if by "exactly like twitter blue" you mean "charging people money for things" then sure. But you're generalizing beyond the point where the comparison is useful or a pejorative
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