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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by lapcat »

mmiyer wrote: post #145
lapcat wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Personally I signed up for threads and have been liking using it so far even though I never really used twitter. I think it has lower startup cost than Twitter because the algorithmic feed really works well without having to manually follow a lot of people. So I think there is reason for Zuck to dream big.

> I think it has lower startup cost than Twitter because the algorithmic feed really works well without having to manually follow a lot of people.

Twitter has an algorithmic feed.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by lapcat »

silisili wrote: post #221
lapcat wrote: post #38

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> They had the chance of outrun threads but slept on it. I don't think that's a fair criticism. Threads is backed by a $750 billion market cap megacorporation, while Bluesky just announced a seed round of $8 million, a mere drop in the bucket for Meta. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan

I know it's cliche here to ask why things cost so much, why so many employees needed, etc. But give any competent engineer and friend 8 million, and they'll build you a Twitter on steroids in 6 months.

> But give any competent engineer and friend 8 million, and they'll build you a Twitter on steroids in 6 months.

You are correct, it is cliche to claim this.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by Karsteski »

jtr1 wrote: post #278
Karsteski wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the thing that Nazis do?

Advocate for racial hierarchies, spread hateful messages about various minorities, promote subjugation for women and violence as purification for men. The usually nazi shit, although the ones with extra brain cells try to be coy about it.

Fair enough. The reason I asked is because it seems people throw that word around very loosely now

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by delecti »

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?

Loads of names seem bad until they stop being words and turn into meaningless tokens. "iPad" received a ton of criticism, and now basically nobody cares.

But even with that said, I thought "Bluesky" seemed perfectly fine as a name. It's perhaps tying itself a bit to being an "escape" or "clean start" (implicitly "from twitter", now that many people are dissatisfied with Elon's leadership), but nobody is going to forget that aspect of the social media landscape for a while, so I don't think it's a problem.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by delecti »

afavour wrote: post #47
threeseed wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Threads had 48m users in a day which already includes the most popular influencers, journalists etc. There just isn't enough room in this market for contributors to post on this many text-based apps. And so consolidation will happen. 1) Threads will dominate. Mastodon will be like remora fish. 2) Twitter will be the home for "freedom of speech", Crypto bros, OnlyFans girls. 3) Truth Social, Gab, Post, Blueksy, Spouti…

> Threads had 48m users in a day Let’s see how many stick around. Don’t get me wrong, I suspect you’re right. But given the promotion and ease of login I’m not at all surprised to see huge day one login numbers. The question is whether people like what they see enough to stick around.

I'm certainly not sticking around. I signed up, pulled over my follow list from IG, muted a bunch of brand accounts I didn't follow, realized the feed was 100% algorithmic, and haven't launched it again since.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by eganist »

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…

Clubhouse dropped off because they lost their secret sauce (exclusivity) the moment they opened invites up to nearly everyone.

It's still alive. But it's specifically them scaling up that killed their relevance because it turned out social audio was even better as a place for bullies and extremists than it is as an exclusive popular person hangout.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by coldpie »

brvsft wrote: post #110
jpwerty wrote: post #82

The 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…

> Collaborative mute lists make screening out horseshit easy. Gotta have my filter bubble to protect me from 'misinformation.' At least this time it is crowdsourced so Jack doesn't even have to cooperate with any political campaigns.

What you want already exists. There's already tons of places online you can go to get a huge dose of conspiracy theories and racism. Your needs are met. Some of us would like to have places where that doesn't happen.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by manojlds »

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…

You can set your domain as your username on Bluesky / ATP. Probably you didn't have that context?

Lot of feedback originally was common people won't bother to buy domain and integrate with BlueSky, so this is great that they are doing this.

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