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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 jamie_ca »

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…

Certainly _buying_ domain names to be your identity is new, but OpenID[1] was doing basically that 15 years ago.

Add a few meta tags to your website homepage, use that homepage as your "identity" to log in to websites, and they'd up your configured identity provider to do the login & request name/email/whatever else. You weren't locked in to a particular provider, since you logged in as _your_ webpage and could change the meta tags to point to a different provider.

1: https://openid.net/

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by DoItToMe81 »

corobo wrote: post #207
DoItToMe81 wrote: post #204

Namecheap is the worst company possible for this, because it's trivial to trick them into removing domains. Here's a reminder that a troll managed to get them to remove domains, through Twitter, by claiming that they were run by Russians.

Could you back that up? The irony of anyone accepting that Namecheap fell for a "trust me bro" with a source of "trust me bro" is funny, but I'd also like to read more

Can't find the one about Russians, but I found one where a troll was reporting random sites for being "possibly suspicious", which were all falsely taken down without investigation (https://web.archive.org/web/20220204063105/https://twitter.c...).

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by Terretta »

case wrote: post #298

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?

That way, copyright holders or the government only have one letter to send to take you offline, not two.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by greyface- »

klysm wrote: post #320
greyface- wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The thing is, there is no @mark Not yet! Is ICANN still accepting applications for new gTLDs?

Huh? That’s not like a valid domain though

Sure it is! TLDs can have records at the zone apex, although it's fairly rare. Check out http://ai/ for example.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by troupo »

blitzar wrote: post #256
tick_tock_tick wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They dont need a permit or paperwork, they just need to copy and paste the t's & c's from their two existing platforms.

They can no longer do that: CJEU declares Meta/Facebook's GDPR approach largely illegal: https://noyb.eu/en/cjeu-declares-metafacebooks-gdpr-approach...

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by ryanyde »

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…

This guy gets its!!

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by ummonk »

jbc1 wrote: post #235
gls2ro wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure but the new king of Twitter decided to open the gates and try to burn down his castle because the castle upkeep and providing for his retainers was too expensive.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by n42 »

elif wrote: post #294
n42 wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I get it. less diversity of thought means more echo chambers. you're saying that fundamentally these platforms will fail to be the town squares they want to be by doing that. and I'm saying that most people do not want a town square, they just want a dinner party without the village idiots.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by tedunangst »

colanderman wrote: post #293
denton-scratch wrote: post #257

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> 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).

CNAME records are a thing.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by femiagbabiaka »

s3krit wrote: post #265
femiagbabiaka wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Super cool!
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