Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

blueskyweb.xyz

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

61–70 of 354 posts

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#61

Post by werid »

silisili wrote: post #11
klysm wrote: post #4

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.

threads is going to split communities if it takes off, given that EU is locked out of it.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#63

Post by sigmar »

evanmoran wrote: post #22

I can’t wait to read the tell all book about Bluesky during this three day period when Threads hits a hundred million users and Bluesky makes the most important strategic decision of its existence.

"we shut down new user signups so we could focus on the really important stuff: acting as a frontend for namecheap"

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#64

Post by TheAceOfHearts »

dkh wrote: post #40
prakhar897 wrote: post #26

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.

Well Threads currently doesn’t even have a chronological, non-algo feed I can look at, whereas on bluesky you can have any number of feeds with whatever algo/logic you want. I don’t think I’ll be using Threads much while the one and only feed is the way it is. And there’s more differences than just that, it’s a bit too soon to do a declaration of death I think

You can customize feeds but there's barely any real content getting posted because the user base is so small. Some people with hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter barely get any kind of engagement on Blue Sky. The dopamine hit just isn't showing up for big time posters.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#65

Post by saagarjha »

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 which already includes the most popular influencers, journalists etc.

Being able to migrate existing accounts in seconds tends to do that. Let’s see how many stick around.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#66

Post by threeseed »

rhaway84773 wrote: post #53
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.

Even if Threads is crap, it’s pretty obvious it’s gonna steal all of Twitter’s advertisers the moment they start showing ads, because the ad money generating users are moving onto Threads. Heck, Threads doesn’t even need to show ads and the displacement of ad money away from Twitter will benefit Meta as much of that Twitter ad money will get redirected to Meta properties like FB and IG instead.

There is a related problem for Twitter which reminds me of the Altavista/Google days.

Zuckerberg has said that they won't run ads until there is a credible path to 1 billion users.

So for a year or more it will be Threads with no ads. And Twitter with according to their newly hired CEO "full-screen, sound-on" ads.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#67

Post by benatkin »

lapcat wrote: post #49
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 curr…

To me it was vaporware. I signed up for it and got a $50 lesson in being careful about supporting crowdfunding projects.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#68

Post by chupchap »

lapcat wrote: post #60
rhaway84773 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if Threads is crap, it’s pretty obvious it’s gonna steal all of Twitter’s advertisers the moment they start showing ads, because the ad money generating users are moving onto Threads. Heck, Threads doesn’t even need to show ads and the displacement of ad money away from Twitter will benefit Meta as much of that Twitter ad money will get redirected to Meta properties like FB and IG instead.

FWIW (not much) Zuck said they don't intend to monetize Threads until there's "a clear path to 1 billion people" https://www.threads.net/t/CuW5-eWL34x That seems kind of strange to me, though, because 1 billion is more than 3x the entire Twitter user base.

> path to 1 billion people

Also Insta has 1bn+ active MAUs and Meta us leaning heavily on Insta for Threads

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#69

Post by wmf »

Barrin92 wrote: post #52
sahaj wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

isn't Bluesky supposed to run on a federated protocol? They could just open source their reference implementation and let people run their own instances. Not even the protocol itself seems to be public.

Nothing about Bluesky is secret; it's just unfinished.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

#70

Post by fastball »

routelastresort wrote: post #54
afavour wrote: post #3

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.

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.

Post reply on HN