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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by mstipetic »

tsimionescu wrote: post #194
eddythompson80 wrote: post #173

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DNS is good enough for companies, governments, schools, organizations, military etc. Not to mention that most other identities are tied to a DNS identity of some sort. Sure it’s not ideal as something completely trust less and distribute like PGP, but it’s been 33 years and no one can come up with a decent UX for that because it’s not really possible. $8 a year is a barrier to entry, especially if you consider people…

Yes, DNS is good enough for organizations (though I should note that governments don't rely on DNS registrars, they run their own). The crucial difference is that organizations can hire people to care about those things, or hire lawyers to ensure they can be recovered if accidentally lost. And in fact many of these organizations change domains in the longer run for various reasons. So even there, DNS is often only us…

How hard is it to run a registrar? I’d assume there are decent open source components to manage it. It’s basically a key value store. Why couldn’t governments provide a stable domain name for each individual?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by copperx »

netheril96 wrote: post #121
copperx wrote: post #101

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I'm surely bikeshedding, but isn't Bluesky a terrible name for a social network?

So is "Threads" in my opinion. But I downloaded Threads regardless.

Threads is a fantastic name, in my opinion. It is self-descriptive, it trademarks an English word, like Windows, everybody knows how to spell it, and works in multiple languages. What's not to like?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by copperx »

dingaling wrote: post #302
kalleboo wrote: post #213

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Everyone made fun of "Twittr" and "Tweets" when it was still new

At least they were reasonably portable words that worked in most Latin-based languages. Whereas Bluesky is firmly English, and probably tilting more towards American corporate English in terms of "Blue sky thinking". Substitute CielBleu as a thought experiment.

It's also generic. There have been tons of products/brands called "Bluesky."

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by elif »

n42 wrote: post #328
elif wrote: post #294

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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.

in your metaphor, my point is that the table that started with village idiots at it and scared some people away still has more diversity of thought than the table who have self-selected a new table.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by colanderman »

tedunangst wrote: post #329
colanderman wrote: post #293

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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.

You cannot have any other record on a domain with a CNAME. Not workable if you have any other service (say, e-mail) tied to your domain.

SRV records are the correct solution, but neither WebFinger nor Mastodon chose to use them.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by n42 »

elif wrote: post #334
n42 wrote: post #328

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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.

in your metaphor, my point is that the table that started with village idiots at it and scared some people away still has more diversity of thought than the table who have self-selected a new table.

I just don't think people necessarily want it. most are just looking to enjoy themselves.

that doesn't mean we don't _need_ what you're talking about, I just think there are people pushing two very different directions, what masses want vs what society needs

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by 8organicbits »

fastball wrote: post #70
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.

> Decentralized platforms are the way to go even if it is centralized Wat.

You cropped the key part

> ... centralized version and vision

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by MisterSandman »

eganist wrote: post #286
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…

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.

Clubhouse died because it was a bad idea. Twitter Spaces hasn't succeeded either.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by [deleted] »

coldpie wrote: post #288
brvsft wrote: post #110

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> 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.

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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by brvsft »

coldpie wrote: post #288
brvsft wrote: post #110

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> 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.

Right, the Hunter Biden laptop story censored by Twitter for the benefit of one political party during a presidential election was somehow misinformation and also a conspiracy theory and racism.

I find the complete unwillingness for everyone still moaning about misinformation to admit they were wrong about that laptop to be probably the most insane thing I've seen in my life. The laptop story wasn't even that important, but the incessant and belligerent lying or moving the goalposts about what happened is breathtaking.

If you ever want to admit you're wrong, I won't make fun of you.

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