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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.
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.
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.
Woo another social media to ignore! How long before he sells this one to musk?
SMS verification?
Eeeeh… :-/
Does anybody remember when Twitter ran basically exclusively over SMS?
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
No thanks. I will never join that tech bro shit
I like it over there. Of all the Twitter alternatives I think it ticks the right boxes.
- Decentralised
- Low barrier to sign up
- Not owned by a crazed billionaire
- No ads
- No popularity algorithm
- Interesting features, like custom feeds and moderation lists
If they can bridge their AT Protocol with ActivityPub then I don’t see why it can’t take off.
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.No edit posts, no deal
Haven’t been following Blue sky stuff at all. Any reason to use this over mastodon?
Celebrities, politicians and businesses will be more likely to show up on the platform, if that’s your jam.
Ah gotcha. I’m kind of enjoying just hanging with regular people being regular on mastodon. Probably check out bluesky at some point.
Thanks for the info!
As an American you’re supposed to consider yourself a temporarily inconvenienced superstar millionaire, so maybe you should get over to there to hob nob with the rich foke.
Seems like a downside tbh
