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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 jacooper »

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.

BTW its not clear if other product like Twitter or Instagram are even compliant, so its not a meta / threads specific thing.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by _cenw »

ranguna wrote: post #232
_cenw wrote: post #132

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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?

It's an illusion of choice. I go wherever my community goes. I've tried boycotting Discord and it just made me miserable and isolated.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by caskstrength »

sahaj wrote: post #36
nba456_ wrote: post #14

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

The Bluesky infra would not be able to handle scale without invite-only clownshow. Meta can open the floodgates without breaking a sweat.

> The Bluesky infra would not be able to handle scale without invite-only clownshow. Meta can open the floodgates without breaking a sweat.

Honest question: are they emulating "classical Twitter" to the extent of going with self-hosted inefficient Rails implementation? Or what is their problem with scaling exactly in 2023 beyond ordering more instances in some AWS gui?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by kgermino »

mcv wrote: post #238
MikusR wrote: post #193

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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.)

I imagine “In practice” is referring to the fact that massive portion or potential users (including myself) can’t access the app because of the registration limits.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by s3krit »

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #134
routelastresort wrote: post #54

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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.

I thought Bluesky was only decentralized in theory. Have alternative open source servers been released?

They've launched the 'sandbox' which is the federated/decentralised dev/staging environment. So yes, you can run your own PDS (server) and have it federate with others, but it's still very much in development and 'here be dragons'

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/SANDBOX.md

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by paulgb »

quadrifoliate wrote: post #161
anderspitman wrote: post #128

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I agree this might confuse users initially, but we need to normalize owning and using domains. We also need to make it much easier and this is an important step.

Sure, but that is a lofty goal, and quite different from Bluesky's goals, which (according to https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-13-2023-what-is-bluesky ) are: - Users own their data and can take it anywhere they want to go. - Developers will never get locked out of the ecosystems they help build. - Creators will always own their relationships with their audience. User portability is always possible without the user ownin…

It’s not different from those goals. The way that creators own their relationship with their audience is by owning an identity not owned by the platform.

If you don’t attach a domain to your Bluesky profile, you get assigned yourname.bsky.social, which is inherently controlled by the platform. I’m glad that they are encouraging portable identities.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by gls2ro »

jbc1 wrote: post #235
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…

Hundreds of millions of people writing and interacting with each other is exactly the moat Twitter had when BlueSky was started.

I agree but a moat is not a “stone” - or not sure how to name this.

A series of bad decisions let a lot of people to not want to continue build their audience on twitter.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by agentgumshoe »

This all seems to be missing the point. What does using DNS for your identity do for your actual data? Your data is still going to be on whichever platform you log on to, and otherwise wouldn't we want to be able to make a unique ID for each service?

Really, if you want a consistent, permanent ID, we might as well use our government IDs everywhere...

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by paulgb »

agentgumshoe wrote: post #268

This all seems to be missing the point. What does using DNS for your identity do for your actual data? Your data is still going to be on whichever platform you log on to, and otherwise wouldn't we want to be able to make a unique ID for each service? Really, if you want a consistent, permanent ID, we might as well use our government IDs everywhere...

An explicit goal of AT protocol is data portability. DNS gives you identity portability, since otherwise you’d still be locked in to the platform that owned your identity.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by rychco »

prakhar897 wrote: post #26

Bluesky 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.

I will never even consider using threads, because I will never use Instagram/Facebook. Even Twitter I only reluctantly had an account to follow specific individuals for information. I have a mastodon account but I don’t like it very much.

I will wait to try Bluesky. If it dies before I get the chance, then I won’t be using anything at all. Threads is not an option.

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