Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky • Hacker News Board

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by housemusicfan » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:40 AM UTC

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

Threads had 48m users just like that U2 album[1] sold 500m copies on iTunes.

[1] https://www.eonline.com/news/1071481/remember-when-apple-for...

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jpwerty » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:40 AM UTC

The dirty little secret about Bluesky is that it's actually pretty goddamn great on the inside. I have never in my life had normals asking for a social media invite, but I currently have a list of fourteen people waiting for a code.

It works, feels, tastes, shares, and functions like Classic Twitter without the waves of repugnant users or miserably overbaked features. Collaborative mute lists make screening out horseshit easy. Shit stays put and is there when you return to the app. The timeline is hard chronological and the utter lack of ads is delightful. Hashtag hash is not missed. Everything just works with a modicum of taste to boot.

Threads is not an equivalent product.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by elif » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:41 AM UTC

Ideologically these Twitter exodus communities will become even more microcosmic than the presumed "alt-right, redpilled" ideology they purport to escape. Twitter may be these things in part, but by being a direct reaction away from these things, the new networks will become necessarily more niche and specialized ideologically.

In the same way that the ideological specialization of Twitter is not helpful for its growth, these new networks will be likewise more of an echo-chamber, and regardless of the "correctness" of their ideology, the unilaterality of it will starve it of the multifaceted discourse which provides the "town square" functionality which is core to these platforms' ethos.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by rewtraw » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:42 AM UTC

dkh wrote: post #43

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.

making it a content platform with little content. and of that sparse content, most of it is meta-commentary on bluesky itself.

poasters post where the consumers are, and vice versa. Threads is on its way to bootstrapping this network effect in a way bluesky never even began to scratch due to the invite system and niche appeal

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by HHC-Hunter » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:42 AM UTC

Can anyone answer me this, where is the funding for bluesky coming from?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by lostmsu » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:43 AM UTC

coderintherye wrote: post #71

Have you all considered that the VC-backed winner-take-all model of one platform left standing does not have to be the way? Threads for the status-seekers Spill for hip folks Truth Social for alt-right Bluesky for the cozy web Mastodon for the true geeks So on and so on...and that's a good thing.

True geeks use Secure Scuttlebutt

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jacurtis » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:44 AM UTC

Cool....

This is the type of feature / partnership you build in year 5, not pre-launch.

Wouldn't it be better to focus on features and scalability needed for opening up the network to more users to build the network beyond a beta phase or adding core features to the app?

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by eddythompson80 » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:45 AM UTC

lapcat wrote: post #75

benatkin wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

How was it vaporware? It existed, it worked. In fact it worked great. I used app.net for years. I wouldn't be nostalgic about vaporware.

What was great about it? Its model made no sense tbh. Pay $50/year for an API key to a twitter like platform that nobody is using. Anybody can create an app, but you have to pay them separately. The branding made no sense, “app.net” a microblogging platform? It felt like the only people who ever signed up to app.net were ex-third party twitter developers who felt burned by twitter’s 2012 changes. Their development track seem to be just “hey this thing is popular now, let’s spend 2 years and deliver a half-assed limited implementation for it too late.”

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by Hamuko » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 4:46 AM UTC

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.