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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 threeseed »

afavour wrote: post #29
xwdv wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The lunch is ate.

IMO the jury is still out. Twitter was always more than just a UI format, Twitter-shaped text posts with my Instagram friends doesn’t scratch the same itch.

Threads had 48m users in a day which already includes the most popular influencers, journalists etc.

There just isn't enough room in this market for contributors to post on this many text-based apps. And so consolidation will happen.

1) Threads will dominate. Mastodon will be like remora fish.

2) Twitter will be the home for "freedom of speech", Crypto bros, OnlyFans girls.

3) Truth Social, Gab, Post, Blueksy, Spoutible etc will die.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#42

Post by alasarmas »

tapoxi wrote: post #35
silisili wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Threads is federating with Mastodon, which is good for both of them.

Federation will end faster than you can say “The Gmail web client does not have an interface for joining chat rooms on other [Jabber] servers” [0]

0. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12237/how-can-i-...

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#43

Post by dkh »

nba456_ wrote: post #14

Bluesky trying to go the way of Clubhouse with their invite-only clownshow

Everyone on bluesky loves the invite system because it has ensured growth doesn’t overwhelm still-developing features like how moderation works, it has encouraged people to generally invite non-assholes since their own reputation is at stake, etc.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#44

Post by Hamuko »

tapoxi wrote: post #35
silisili wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Threads is federating with Mastodon, which is good for both of them.

Just tried it, didn't work.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#45

Post by morkalork »

sahaj wrote: post #36
nba456_ wrote: post #14

Bluesky trying to go the way of Clubhouse with their invite-only clownshow

The Bluesky infra would not be able to handle scale without invite-only clownshow. Meta can open the floodgates without breaking a sweat.

Might be worth it to push through anyways. Twitter had its fail whales back in the day, I think a couple of temporary outages caused by demand might even be a good thing and add to the hype. Absence makes the heart grow fonder doesn't it? Seems silly to trade insane growth for perfectionism instead.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#46

Post by a_bonobo »

tapoxi wrote: post #35
silisili wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Threads is federating with Mastodon, which is good for both of them.

One of the main open questions is how abuse will be handled. Mastodon is operated by volunteers with little extra time, in the worst case you handle abuse by just de-federating from an entire instance. Saves time for Mastodon mods. I don't think you can do that with Threads?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#47

Post by afavour »

threeseed wrote: post #41
afavour wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO the jury is still out. Twitter was always more than just a UI format, Twitter-shaped text posts with my Instagram friends doesn’t scratch the same itch.

Threads had 48m users in a day which already includes the most popular influencers, journalists etc. There just isn't enough room in this market for contributors to post on this many text-based apps. And so consolidation will happen. 1) Threads will dominate. Mastodon will be like remora fish. 2) Twitter will be the home for "freedom of speech", Crypto bros, OnlyFans girls. 3) Truth Social, Gab, Post, Blueksy, Spouti…

> Threads had 48m users in a day

Let’s see how many stick around. Don’t get me wrong, I suspect you’re right. But given the promotion and ease of login I’m not at all surprised to see huge day one login numbers. The question is whether people like what they see enough to stick around.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#48

Post by mrcwinn »

sahaj wrote: post #36
nba456_ wrote: post #14

Bluesky trying to go the way of Clubhouse with their invite-only clownshow

The Bluesky infra would not be able to handle scale without invite-only clownshow. Meta can open the floodgates without breaking a sweat.

And as many of us have observed, the key isn't just the app or UI, it's that there are people there. With Threads, people are indeed there. Like it or not I think this means Bluesky is dead-on-didn't-arrive.

Is it any surprise Facebook got this right? Understanding "it's cool because there are people there" is part of their origin story, after all.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#49

Post by lapcat »

benatkin wrote: post #30

This makes it a tiny bit more like app.net. Not in terms of control but in terms of floating the idea of paying an annual subscription fee.

> This makes it a tiny bit more like app.net.

This was such a missed opportunity by the community, because app.net was the best implementation of a Twitter alternative ever made. Better than Bluesky, better than Mastodon, better than Threads, etc.

I quit Twitter in 2012 and joined app.net. It was great! But not enough people did that to make app.net last. I still think about what we could have had instead of the current lineup of crap. :-(

> Not in terms of control but in terms of floating the idea of paying an annual subscription fee.

Where did you see that, other than the general idea of "paid services"?

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