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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 manojlds »

esperent wrote: post #147
devjab wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> as simple as changing a few DNS settings For 99.9% of users this is a not at all simple.

Which is why this exists

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by colanderman »

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…

Mastodon could have done this (via SRV records), but chose instead to delegate to WebFinger (which does not support DNS-based redirection): https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/1931 So if you want to own your Mastodon identity as a domain, you must also maintain a Webfinger server to act as a redirect.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by colanderman »

denton-scratch wrote: post #257
devjab wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> If something happens to that server instance then I'm basically losing my "identity". So run your own instance?

I own my e-mail identity without running a server (via DNS MX records). This is not possible with Mastodon (which relies on WebFinger).

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by elif »

n42 wrote: post #224
elif wrote: post #83

Ideologically these Twitter exodus communities will become even more microcosmic than the presumed "alt-right, redpilled" ideology they purport to escape. Twitter may be these things in part, but by being a direct reaction away from these things, the new networks will become necessarily more niche and specialized ideologically. In the same way that the ideological specialization of Twitter is not helpful for its grow…

using big words doesn’t make this intellectual. people want to make jokes and have light hearted conversations with others without hatred spewing everywhere. it’s pretty simple.

As I said, my point is irrespective of the righteousness of any particular ideologies. Your reflexive ideological defense buttresses my position of ideological segregation prompting the twitter exodus.

If you desire light hearted discussion, I suggest avoiding nonresponsive arguments and implications of pseudointellectualism.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by elif »

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…

paying twitter for authentication doesnt seem any different from paying namecheap (or your favorite registrar) for authentication.

in fact, when corporations try to own their domain space authentication, they have to buy hundreds of lookalike domains to avoid imposters.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by hiidrew »

jslpc wrote: post #245
areoform wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

I've gotcha if you still need one.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by case »

From the blog post:

> Bluesky offers an additional layer of privacy protection by acting as your domain registrar agent. We do not register your personal information with the WHOIS directory, which is a searchable database that holds information on domain ownership.

So is Bluesky the registrant of these domains, not the end-user?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by vermilingua »

bwoodward wrote: post #21
vermilingua wrote: post #16

Could be a huge boon to the self-hosted movement, might reach the critical mass of users that are willing to fund open source development of self-hosted cloud, just BYO domain

its only a txt record, not hosting a node (etc)

Yes, but it may mean that many people may be buying domains for the first time, and then realising that that opens the door to self hosting many other services.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by pwpw »

65 wrote: post #289

Somewhat unrelated, but blueskyweb.xyz is the ugliest domain name I've ever seen for a legitimate tech company. Feels like a spam domain.

My peer texted me his personal blog that is an xyz domain three separate times. Finally, he got frustrated and asked why I was ignoring his article he wrote that he was really proud of and was only responding to his other texts. It turns out T-Mobile blocks xyz domains outright over sms, which led to our awkward moment. We had a good laugh about it, but it made me realize that xyz domains are not reliable for even a personal blog (and also reaffirmed sms is a very poor medium for text communication).
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