Bluesky opens to public registration

Not really federated so far, right? They talk a lot about being open, but (when) will they be really? Can I sign up for an account that intereacts with Bluesky through any other provider?

I mean, I signed up, it seems interesting enough. If nothing else it has some recognizable accounts to follow, better network effect than Mastodon.

I don't follow it very closely, but as far as I know, they are the only one implementing the open protocol they designed (which doesn't interoperate with ActivityPub). However, there seems to be some efforts for creating a bridge: https://www.docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed

As you said, there are some recognizable faces and that may impact the adoption. But not being compatible with ActivityPub is a real bummer.
- I was going to say, if it federates at all then a bridge should be possible
According to a random employee on hacker news, later this month they will have open federation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274882

As always, caveat lector.
Sounds like they are saying (later this month) you can create your own Bluesky instance…but will they ever federate outside that?
There is some federation, however most instances that I've seen are people's personal instances because in the past you've still needed a bluesky invite to federate with the main instance. Now that you don't need an invite anymore I'm sure that'll change and you'll see more public 3rd party instances popping up.

And once he has the numbers he will just sell it again

Probably true, though the protocol is open source and can federate, so potentially has a lower blast radius next time as people can just bail to other ATProto servers.
- Are there any other ATProto servers? Can you bail to those today?

Fuck billionaires. Mastodon never had limited sign-ups because you're not a product on it.

FOSS life!

Uhhhh many servers have had and do have limited sign-ups
- Arguably the best ones. Because you know their moderation is on lock.

Requires a phone number to sign up. No thanks.

Just curious, why is that a deal breaker? It seems like a mild form of anti spam protection, potential 2fa backup, and a way to uniquely identify users.
- It requires personally identifying information to login. That's a hard pass for menu people.
- What I've long been curious about is whether the service provider can derive a subscriber identity using the number. I mean of course the mobile network operator knows I'm me, but does Bluesky? Or is it merely a valid mobile number to them?

I'll skip. Just like how I skipped AOL, MySpace, LiveJournal, 4Chan, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut, Bebo, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, Blogger, Google+, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Quora, Twitch, YouTube, Vine, Netflix, OkCupid, Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Discord, TikTok… oh all of the Apple ecosystem, and many other I missed by being oblivious or simply never heard of…

I liked the Slashdot, Digg, Reddit and now the Lemmy format/style. Will continue to move on to whatever I find stupid simple and publicly accessible I guess. I am naturally lazy, advertisement averse and hate having to provide personal info just to use something non-governmental or non-essential.

Now, with the increasing prevalence of LLM based bots, I will probably ineluctably reduce my time spent posting anything (I certainly hope it doesn't get that bad, only time will tell) on any kind of “social media” and focus on current and new family, friends, coworkers, colleagues and acquaintances.

Cool story bro.
You might like tiktok. It's the same as reddit.
- Full of trash and your life is better off without it? Checks out.
- How?

This might have been interesting a few months ago, when they were getting the kind of free publicity that CEOs would kill for. Now that the momentum is gone, though, nobody cares. They took WAY too long to get their shit together.

I feel like the hype already died down quite some time ago. I know a few people who made an account, but this is the first time I heard the site mentioned this year. Same with Threads.

Yeah, even before this people were having a hard time to give away their unused invite codes.

Why the fuck do they require my phone number to register? No thanks.

To make sure you are real.
- Sure, that’s the reason. I believe that.
- There are better ways to confirm someone is a human. If they would not just want to gather personal user data instead, which apparently is the case.
Ages ago I got a spam Gmail account with a google voice number I also use for this type spam bs!
- Those aren't available to register anymore though, are they?

That's the MSN butterfly...

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Yay, a "good" guy with a company will stop a bad guy with a company!

All hail Jack!

Oh this remembered me of that I do have an account since last year and just used it to argue with some fan boys about if Bluesky is full FOSS or not (it’s not)

Nice. Maybe finally a useable twitter alternative.

Funny enough co-founded by Jack Dorsey

It would be better for them to use Activity hub or at least hook into it. Leverage Mastodon/other services.

I guess I can delete the invite I never used.

joined awhile ago, I found the lack of hashtags frustrating - it limited discoverability, unlike on Mastodon where I just follow dozens of hashtags

Wow I assumed that anyone could sign up from the beginning, but anything like Twitter couldn't interest me less so I never looked into it

Quick, everyone go to the new hype Nazi bar! (Well, not so hype anymore)

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