Comment on Observations from poking Bluesky app

helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure why anyone would be interested in yet-another corporate-controlled platform

  Copying my own reply to a similar question the other day: Most users don’t give a shit about the tech or politics, they just want to go where the people they are interested in are, and most of them don’t care either! Bluesky is actively promoting itself as the new old Twitter, so that’s where people who want that are going.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To those people I would say: just use Twitter.

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• ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Idea is that eventually others will be able to build atop their protocol and set up different “appviews” as they call them as well as relays and personal data servers. As I understand it, “appviews” may be viewed similar to what Lemmy and Mastodon are to ActivityPub, different ways to view data passed through ActivityPub.

  Right now I think Bluesky may be the only such “appview” for their protocol parsing data from their relay, but the idea is you could spin up your own personal data server and maybe also your own appview, or choose from whichever may eventually exist, and that would be like your own “instance” connecting you to others via the appview parsing relay data.

  So in other words, sort of yes to your first question, and it’s sort of because right now there’s only one AuthTransfer relay at the moment and that’s Bluesky.

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• damon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, they opened federation a couple months ago and people are running their own PDS. It’s different from Twitter as people can own their identity, it’s only been out a little over a year, give it time dude. Mastodon is 8 years old. Blue sky has custom feeds over 40k of them made by various people, mute lists and block lists that are shareable and abled to be subscribed to, use identities are not tethered to instances, more controls of what they see and don’t see. You have a bunch of liberals and marginalised communities on there enjoying themselves. Why would go to Twitter?

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  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    use[r] identities are not tethered to instances

    Tbh while this is technically true, given the current circumstances, identities essentially are tethered albeit in a roundabout way. What I mean by that is, there’s no real point to them without some relay and appview to work with, and for now, that’s just Bluesky.

    That said, I agree that it would be better to go to them than to Twitter (if they’re not even considering stuff like Mastodon), but that’s a low hurdle to clear.

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  • dam@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    mute lists and block lists that are shareable and abled to be subscribed to

    i do not want this. if i wanted this, i would be on twitter. even the mastodon block system is too extreme in my opinion. the lemmy system is good though.

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