Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch
Bluesky looks and functions like Twitter at the outset, but the platform stands out because of what lies under the hood.
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Decentralized network. Number of servers on the network: 1.
But the server stands a little bit to the side, not in the centre.
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Sounds like some crypto token tbh
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!"
Well it would certainly be a challenge to turn out worse than current twitter.
It wouldn't be a challenge at all. It's just earlier in its lifecycle.
Bluesky is pretty great so far, in may i will complete 1 year and I like a lot, made many friends.
Its perfect? Of course not...
Did my typical, set up an account to squat on my username so no one else gets it then signed back out to likely never sign in again…
Untill someone pays bluesky
The usernames are just domains. Nobody can steal your domain.
Uuuh, no thanks.
Why this over Mastodon?
User-uploadable custom feeds, which aren't really possible with ActivityPub
Thank you, great feature.
Depends on the kinds of accounts you follow. Mastodon is all technical users - so not many celebrities who aren't in technical fields.
that's the reason why I don't use Mastodon. there are a lot of tech and politics related things, and I am not tech savvy
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.
SMS verification?
Eeeeh… :-/
Does anybody remember when Twitter ran basically exclusively over SMS?
Best part. Once it returned errors... I almost cried.
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).
O yea when Twitter was cool and unique lolol
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.
Woo another social media to ignore! How long before he sells this one to musk?
No thanks. I will never join that tech bro shit
i olny joined that just to send cursed govia logo images
As a decentralized platform, Bluesky’s code is completely open source,
As long as a company is in control, being decentralized doesn't mean shit.
I like it over there. Of all the Twitter alternatives I think it ticks the right boxes.
If they can bridge their AT Protocol with ActivityPub then I don't see why it can't take off.
Decentralised
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Well, that's the whole point of the whole thing. Bluesky is built on the AT Protocol, which will be federated early this year. https://bsky.social/about/blog/11-15-2023-toward-federation
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.
low barrier to sign up
phone number required
eh
Theres a group of devs that have been working on a bridge between the protocols I found out about while digging for info about Bluesky.
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.
Quick, someone link the xkcd
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.
Checked it out. Smells like Twitter to me.
No thanks.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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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No edit posts, no deal
Haven't been following Blue sky stuff at all. Any reason to use this over mastodon?
