Fleeing from Twitter to Bluesky remains one of the dumbest, most myopic decisions that people have made in recent memory. "Oh, I'm sure a Dorsey-run and designed service won't turn out exactly like the last one did!"
How have you gone about making friends on the platform? I checked it out, but found it a bit isolating. Surely that's on me rather than the platform, so I'd like to hear of your experience.
When corporations inevitably arrive to the platform, we can use it to shame them into offering a decent service after they ignore our calls and emails.
It has some features Id love to see on ActivityPub like account migration between servers, and people are already working on bridges between the protocols so it will basically be able to federate, at least with mastodon. I was also skeptical but if they keep it open source and let it play nice with AP protocall I wont be mad at it. Sure I'd prefer them pushing AP further than doing their own thing but for whatever reason I'm willing to give more benefit of the doubt to them than a service like threads.
I remember. Getting blown up by texts from 40404 on my dumb phone all day. It was basically a glorified group text the way we used it. Which was both great and awful.
Whoa man, I totally forgot about that functionality. I looked it up to see if it was still supported but seems that they retired it in April 2020, with the exception of a few countries. Kind of crazy they kept it going that long given how obviously unsecure SMS is (which is the main reason Twitter gave at the time for why they were retiring it).
Unfortunate fact: Oppressive regimes and even billionaires in such regimes can basically get all of your SMS. No matter which brand, they will handover your data.
I know everyone likes to shit on all Social Media that isn't called Mastodon, but that doesn't mean Mastodon is the only option. I am on both (and Twitter a bit still too) but Bluesky is where I spend most of my time.
The literal elephant in the room is Mastodon, the open source, decentralized social network that’s been around since 2016, years before Bluesky existed. While the platforms share similar goals, they use different protocols, making it difficult for the platforms to work together.
According to Similarweb the number of visitors has been going down recently, which might be part of the reason for Bluesky opening up to public sign-ups.
But I also posted my invite codes to a bunch of Discord servers a while ago and still nobody joined, so I question how much of an impact this will actually have.
I wasn't interested enough to seek out an invite but now that's its open I'll register an promptly forget to ever check again. Plus someone else already took the username "can". Who else would want that? lol
Funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky is one of the more promising micro-blogging platforms that could provide an alternative to Elon Musk’s X.
The company began as a project inside of Twitter that sought to build a decentralized infrastructure called the AT Protocol for social networking.
“What decentralization gets you is the ability to try multiple things in parallel, and so you’re not bottlenecking change on one organization,” Bluesky CEO Jay Graber told TechCrunch.
This all sounds great, but of course, the question will inevitably arise: what if a bad actor creates a moderation service or a server that has tangibly harmful consequences?
This is more of a hands-off approach, which also relies on users to take advantage of Bluesky’s customizable moderation tools to determine what online safety means to them.
Graber couldn’t have possibly anticipated that plot twist, but a year before the acquisition, she just so happened to spin Bluesky out from Twitter and into its own public benefit corporation.
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