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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by dvt »

brvsft wrote: post #340
coldpie wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 importa…

Don't forget about the Wuhan Lab Leak Conspiracy™ (which was anathema until ~6 months ago, but now it's the "leading theory").

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

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…

For the record, no registries or TLD holders allow you to own the domain.

You are always leasing it, and if the registry decide to jack the price, remove your domain or give it to someone else they can (usually with some level of self-imposed rules). The ruls vary between gTLDs and ccTLDs, but believing you "own" a domain can be a dangerous assumption.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by coldpie »

brvsft wrote: post #340
coldpie wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 importa…

No one reputable cares/cared about that story. The people pushing it are/were right wing conspiracy nutters, the kind of people who chug horse dewormer and refuse life saving vaccines. I'm pleased to see them booted out of the spaces I inhabit.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by coldpie »

dvt wrote: post #341
brvsft wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 importa…

Don't forget about the Wuhan Lab Leak Conspiracy™ (which was anathema until ~6 months ago, but now it's the "leading theory").

Sometimes when you try a thing, you'll get it wrong, and that sucks. But that doesn't mean it's not worth trying. I'm not aware of any significant damage done by Twitter getting that one wrong, and the decision took place in an environment of increasing anti-Asian violence in the US[1]. I have a hard time blaming them for trying to do something within their power while there were real consequences for inaction and the jury was still out.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975722882/the-rise-of-anti-as...

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

layer8 wrote: post #214
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…

Yet users use HN, Discord, and many other forums. I think "there can be only one" is what's misguided.

Discord is not comparable to a forum at all. It’s a messaging app first and foremost. Anyone attempting to use it as a forum is shoving a square peg into a round hole with a screwdriver.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by 26fingies »

layer8 wrote: post #252
26fingies wrote: post #246

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I think over the past couple of decades the market has proven out that there can really only be one in a niche

I disagree. It’s obviously wrong in the general case (e.g. look at note-taking or messaging apps), and there are all kinds of discussion forums with overlapping topics. Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Discord, Mastodon and Twitter all have overlapping use cases. Maybe my view is colored by not caring about “the market”. But there’s certainly space for more than one micro-blogging platform.

I disagree with you. Facebook, instagram, telegram, and discord are all very different. People use them in different contexts for different reasons.

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Discord, Youtube, Twitch all have specific niches in which they are dominant and cannot be unseated except through their own fault.

Messaging apps are a little more loose, I’ll give you that.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by brokenbyclouds »

tourmalinetaco wrote: post #345
layer8 wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet users use HN, Discord, and many other forums. I think "there can be only one" is what's misguided.

Discord is not comparable to a forum at all. It’s a messaging app first and foremost. Anyone attempting to use it as a forum is shoving a square peg into a round hole with a screwdriver.

Are you including Discord in the list of people using Discord as a forums?

https://discord.com/blog/forum-channels-space-for-organized-...

Not trying to be sarcastic, just haven't had a chance to use this feature and wasn't sure if you were taking that into account.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by brvsft »

coldpie wrote: post #343
brvsft wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 importa…

No one reputable cares/cared about that story. The people pushing it are/were right wing conspiracy nutters, the kind of people who chug horse dewormer and refuse life saving vaccines. I'm pleased to see them booted out of the spaces I inhabit.

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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

brokenbyclouds wrote: post #347
tourmalinetaco wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord is not comparable to a forum at all. It’s a messaging app first and foremost. Anyone attempting to use it as a forum is shoving a square peg into a round hole with a screwdriver.

Are you including Discord in the list of people using Discord as a forums? https://discord.com/blog/forum-channels-space-for-organized-... Not trying to be sarcastic, just haven't had a chance to use this feature and wasn't sure if you were taking that into account.

Forum channels are a bandaid solution for those people who refuse to use proper forums. It’s alright at what it does but it’s hardly the same. Far closer to ”Issues” on GitHub. In fact that’s mainly what I see it used for, issues and documentation that would benefit from its own indexable websites.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by anttiharju »

moomoo11 wrote: post #181
anttiharju wrote: post #172

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I'd like to have fun and enjoy, can you share an invite? My email's in my profile

Sorry I gave one like 2 days ago. I think it has a 14 day cool down. Hopefully someone else here can give you one and set you up today :)

Someone sent me one (Jay, the ceo? I'm confused - maybe I got it through the waiting list), but thank you :)

Unfortunately went into my spam folder but happened to notice it

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