Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public
Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public
CEO Jay Graber says the app aims to combine ease of Twitter and Threads with customizability of Mastodon. But it faces an uphill battle.
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The guy who started Bluesky was the same Twitter co-founder who push for Twitter to sell out. Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick with Mastodon. It's getting real comfy in there now.
I'm really happy with Mastodon. I don't plan on going on bluesky.
What is X?
I feel like that’s a conversation you should have had with your parents by now.
"When a failing social media platform and a billionaire narcissist love each other very much..."
We’re going to send X to a farm upstate.
Really soft core porn. You need to get into the triple Xs to get to the good stuff.
I'm glad we can rely on @Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world for solid words of advice on this subject.
"When a failing social media platform and a billionaire narcissist love each other very much..."
X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
The one who's gonna give it to ya.
But do they deliver to ya?
It's weird that this post called it by the short name. The full name, as you typically see in articles, is "X (formerly Twitter)".
It's kinda like "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince". A few places tried to call him "The Artist", but no one ever knew what that meant.
"The formerly successful website known as Twitter"
A letter in the alphabet.
no thanks 👍
How can a website be trendy if nobody could use it until now?
You could use it, but only by invitation.
Nah
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.
The original article contains 1,180 words, the summary contains 217 words. Saved 82%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
I got an invite to join last year and signed up to test it out.
Felt like there was a lot less people and a lot less content on it than Mastadon.
Unless the users/content now really starts to take off, there's not enough on there to make it interesting.
Every new social media site will start out like that, whether the platform itself is amazing or another corporate shithole.
Nostr is the way. I think it’s going to end up with way more adoption than mastodon or bluesky. I wrote a post comparing nostr vs mastodon if anyone is curious. https://lemmy.ml/post/11570081
ActivityPub is a w3c standard, which IMO is a big plus over nostr which doesn't have an established independent steward for it.
Also isn't there the thing where users can't really be banned on nostr? I'm not sure where I read that, but that's going to kill any mass adoption if that's the case.
Sounds like somebody gave you some incorrect information re: banning.
- You don't need a w3c standard to have a protocol that is open source and used globally, it's just one way to go about that. You can also have standards which are not made through w3c but are made through some other governance body, or you can have standards where the standard just kind of evolves from a bunch of different devs trying different versions of things until there's one main way which floats to the top since everybody prefers it. Nostr has the NIP (Nostr improvement proposal) process which has been used to make standards for everything from video streaming to calendar events/invites.
- Relays on nostr, which are the equivalent to instances in ActivityPub/mastodon/lemmy can set their own moderation policies, defederate from other relays, etc all the same as in ActivityPub. The moderation abilities are the same. This means relays can choose what content they allow and ban users/topics/content from other relays, etc. The key difference is that you are by default connected to multiple relays. So if your relay blocks a user you really want to follow, you can keep following that user and see them in your feed, they just don't show up for other users on that relay. If a relay blocks you, you can't post content to that relay. So you get the best of both worlds: relays have curated, moderated public squares with trending hashtags and tweets while not reducing your ability to choose who to follow and who can follow you.
- Identity portability is another key feature: if your instance goes down, you don't lose all your DMs, followers, etc.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Nostr, is in fact platforms using Nostr as its protocol to communicate with each other. You see, 'Nostr' is just the protocol. But when you add the wide range of available clients, it becomes a fully functional fediverse. So, it's more fittingly dubbed clients powered by Nostr!
Yes very true!
i also would like to interject and say i don't trust anyone involved with the development or promotion of nostr.
I don't even use mastodon because I hate that general twitter-like format. So I'll never use this either.
Put another way, the hype mechanism of "invite-only" stopped bringing enough hype to justify it.