Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
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Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#2I mean this was the ideal reaction of users on Twitter who have a bluesky account.
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#3Fortunately Mastodon has multiple instances so the traffic is not harmful for the whole community as it is for Bluesky.
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#4not surprising. centralized communication platforms suffer from the hug of death naturally occurring when people want to read information all at once.
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#5Fortunately Mastodon has multiple instances so the traffic is not harmful for the whole community as it is for Bluesky.
bluesky’s federation is in test (https://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox); so nearly there…
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#6Fortunately Mastodon has multiple instances so the traffic is not harmful for the whole community as it is for Bluesky.
I’m fine with having multiple Twitter replacements coexisting with healthy critical-mass user bases.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m fine with having multiple Twitter replacements coexisting with healthy critical-mass user bases.
Yeah, what I need is a Reddit replacement
They're getting slammed hard, but I recommend creating an account on either http://lemmy.world or http://kbin.social. (Personally I prefer Lemmy due to it being closer to Reddit in design.)
They both run OSS Reddit clones and appear to be gaining the most traction. As a bonus, they're also interoperable with each other, and any other server that installs the software.
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#9Did they start fighting scrapers, too? I cannot see the contents of the link it asks me to log in.
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#10What's funny is that while Twitter wants you to log in and goes at great length to prevent you from reading anything when not logged in, the situation is exactly the other way round with Bluesky.
They limit who can sign in, but openly publish all data via their API.
So one could use an AT protocol client to read, or a web based client like this one:
I just made an account, let's see how this thing works:
@gnod.bsky.social