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I’m not positive this is a winner for normie users. The exclusivity of a user name is important, I want @mark, not @mark.abcdef while I know there is an @mark.abcdęf out there.
Is Bluesky a Threads clone?
I'm weary of tying my domain registrar to social media. One of the nice things about owning my domain is that I can control it -- if I get banned on bluesky, a much more likely occurrence than CloudFlare kicking me out, what's the policy of transferring out?
Presumably you'd transfer your domain from Namecheap, not bluesky; there are extremely strict conditions on registrars around domain portability.
It’s unclear to me who is the registrant in this scenario.
If blue sky then you don’t own anything and there is no portability.
If you are the registrant that’s great but namecheap is going to need contact information that’s verifiable which may turn people off who would like a bit more separation on their social profiles. I also wonder does blue sky see that registrant data? Can’t say I like that very much.
I’m not positive this is a winner for normie users. The exclusivity of a user name is important, I want @mark, not @mark.abcdef while I know there is an @mark.abcdęf out there.
It might not be a thing for “normie” users, but the tech-overlapping crowd has been all about domain name based handles for quite a bit, and many are registering domains specifically because of it. This isn’t something they’re doing on a whim, they’re doing it in direct response to demand.
They better hurry up if they want to be relevant. Time to ship garbage!
Too late IMO. Twitter the incumbent, Threads just popped up out of nowhere with a whole heap of users. People switch when other people switch, generally. Those tired of Twitter now have an easy place to call home, there's not going to be any momentum to then want to switch again. Mastodon tried, and did get some following, but IMO is too complicated in concept for the common user. Bsky on the other hand just blew it.
Bluesky trying to go the way of Clubhouse with their invite-only clownshow
I just want auto-renew to work properly sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, lost a couple of high value domain names even tho they've had my CC for years.
I once let my Hotmail account go 30 or 90 days without a login, so Microsoft followed their policy to delete my email and open the username to the public. Someone saw my email on dns records, found it was available, registered the email and stole my domain. Extremely bitter about that ~17 years later. Extremely.
It was tied to my leftover MSDN account from when I worked at MS, so at that point it was no more free legal MS downloads for me :(
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 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
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.
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.
And there’s more differences than just that, it’s a bit too soon to do a declaration of death I think