You can now join Bluesky without an invitation
You can now join Bluesky without an invitation
Why would anyone...
I've been happily using Mastodon but most of the users I followed on the old site went to BlueSky instead. There's no other way to keep up with them without it, and it sure as hell is better than Twitter these days
I haven't had the chance to use it myself, but I am interested in watching its development.
The AT protocol supposedly addresses some big issues with Mastodon and other ActivityPub-based services (like Lemmy). Notably, account portability and distributed identity. From the AT FAQ:
Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements. Our solution for portability requires both signed data repositories and DIDs, neither of which are easy to retrofit into ActivityPub. The migration tools for ActivityPub are comparatively limited; they require the original server to provide a redirect and cannot migrate the user's previous data.
Having a distributed, portable identity system with built-in public key exchange is a big deal. IMO that is the single biggest problem with ActivityPub. Users should be in control of their own identity.
I follow some people on Mastodon who did the half-baked profile migration, and it's really bad from a UX perspective. Occasionally I want to find their older posts and it's difficult, certainly not search-friendly.
Right?
Screw these public "social media" BS.
Yes, I get the irony of me being on lemmy, but it's a different animal. I'm not here shouting to the world like shitter and crapbook.
I'm looking at self-hostinsomethinglike Friendica, just to make sharing with family and close friends easier.
I was able to get an invitation and i couldn't spend more than 10 min on it
And Lo, they built another tower of garbage . . . Six times higher than the first . . And they did clamber upon it and yea verily they were relieved of their privacy.
“Hooray!” They shouted. “Another mostly anonymous corporate entity tracks my every move and sells it for profit!” And there was much rejoicing among the damned.
This needs to be framed.
Ain't that the truth
Maybe I should at least reserve my real name on it…
*gets asked for mobile number
Nope, don’t care that much.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
it has cartoon foxes with dicks
Half the people here were like "yup that's why I didn't join" and the other half just secretly joined upon hearing that.
A friend gave me an invitation a few months ago but when I tried to join they were like, “You know what? Not you.”
So now I’m too petty to join.
No thanks
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Underneath, however, the company is building what Graber calls “an open, decentralized protocol” — a software system that allows developers and users to create their own versions of the social network, with their own rules and algorithms.
Savvy social media users begged one another for “invite codes” to join the fledgling network, whose quirky first adopters gave it a vibe that some likened to the early days of Twitter.
But with fewer than a dozen employees at the time, Graber put off a public launch, fearing that it would force the company to spend all its resources on maintaining and moderating the Bluesky network rather than building out the underlying “decentralized” system.
Rose Wang, who oversees operations and strategy for Bluesky, said its goal is to combine the ease of use and shared experience of closed platforms like X and Threads with the user choice and openness of systems like Mastodon’s.
Mike Masnick, editor of the blog Techdirt and a longtime tech analyst, has followed Bluesky’s progress from the start, after a paper he wrote helped to inspire Dorsey to create the project.
Amy Zhang, a professor at University of Washington’s Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, has been researching Bluesky to study how users respond when given options to control their feeds and moderation systems.
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