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Bluesky adds direct messages

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Re: Bluesky adds direct messages

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Post by matsemann »

Impressed by the rate new features are coming. During the first twitter takeover, many migrated to mastodon in my circles, but it didn't stick. Second wave to bsky has gained enough traction that the circle has sustained there for over half a year, with most disabling their account on X. But a few have remained on X mainly to be able to DM. So this fixes that.

What's lacking for me now is video. Having to share through YouTube and then embed for just small daily clips is a bit cumbersome.

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Post by edent »

It is so far behind Mastodon. Both in terms of features and in terms of communities on there.

The people I interact with on BlueSky are nice, and the website is serviceable. But like Pebble / T2, I just don't see the momentum there.

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Post by jsheard »

matsemann wrote: post #3

Impressed by the rate new features are coming. During the first twitter takeover, many migrated to mastodon in my circles, but it didn't stick. Second wave to bsky has gained enough traction that the circle has sustained there for over half a year, with most disabling their account on X. But a few have remained on X mainly to be able to DM. So this fixes that. What's lacking for me now is video. Having to share throu…

Video is the killer because it's expensive. Don't they still have no ads and only one paid feature, buying a custom domain name through them directly? Which nobody actually has to pay them for because you can link a domain name registered anywhere else for free.

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Post by shadowfacts »

Not only are they not end-to-end encrypted, Bluesky's DMs seem like they're entirely centralized. From their 2024 roadmap:

> We looked closely at alternatives like linking to external services, re-using an existing protocol like Matrix, or rushing out on-protocol encrypted DMs, but ultimately decided to launch a basic centralized system to take the time pressure off our team and make our user community happy.

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/2024-protocol-roadmap

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Post by 34546fh »

matsemann wrote: post #3

Impressed by the rate new features are coming. During the first twitter takeover, many migrated to mastodon in my circles, but it didn't stick. Second wave to bsky has gained enough traction that the circle has sustained there for over half a year, with most disabling their account on X. But a few have remained on X mainly to be able to DM. So this fixes that. What's lacking for me now is video. Having to share throu…

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Re: Bluesky adds direct messages

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Post by xattt »

Bluesky is going to have the same problem as orkut.

While they’re building out, keeping it exclusive and taking their sweet-ass time, something else will come along and eat their lunch.

I am saying this as a bitter outsider without a Bluesky account but with FOMO.

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