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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!”
Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch
Submitted 9 months ago by airportline@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/06/bluesky-is-now-open-for-anyone-to-join/
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Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
gabekn@lemmy.eco.br 9 months ago
Bluesky is pretty great so far, in may i will complete 1 year and I like a lot, made many friends.
Its perfect? Of course not…
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s an online space. You haven’t made any “friends” at all. Holy shit.
Toda@programming.dev 9 months ago
How have you gone about making friends on the platform? I checked it out, but found it a bit isolating. Surely that’s on me rather than the platform, so I’d like to hear of your experience.
hypertown@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well it would certainly be a challenge to turn out worse than current twitter.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It wouldn’t be a challenge at all. It’s just earlier in its lifecycle.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 9 months ago
Did my typical, set up an account to squat on my username so no one else gets it then signed back out to likely never sign in again…
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Untill someone pays bluesky
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Uuuh, no thanks.
Kissaki@feddit.de 9 months ago
SMS verification?
Eeeeh… :-/
jqubed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Does anybody remember when Twitter ran basically exclusively over SMS?
VintageTech@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Best part. Once it returned errors… I almost cried.
__init__@programming.dev 9 months ago
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.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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).
cm0002@lemmy.world 9 months ago
O yea when Twitter was cool and unique lolol
nao@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Is that the only way?
Kissaki@feddit.de 9 months ago
Yes. It’s the second step in the sign-up process. And you can’t see anything without signing up.
Ilgaz@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Unfortunate fact: Oppressive regimes and even billionaires in such regimes can basically get all of your SMS. No matter which brand, they will handover your data.
raiun@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why this over Mastodon?
airportline@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Actual answer: user-uploadable custom feeds, which aren’t really possible with ActivityPub
raiun@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thank you, great feature.
bugsmith@programming.dev 9 months ago
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.
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Depends on the kinds of accounts you follow. Mastodon is all technical users - so not many celebrities who aren’t in technical fields.
edherjrrr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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
Ilgaz@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Goof billionaire owner who sold his stuff to evil one. )
crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Put that descriptor in air finger quotes please: “good “
agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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. 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.
Fridgeratr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Woo another social media to ignore! How long before he sells this one to musk?
aeharding@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No thanks. I will never join that tech bro shit
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
i olny joined that just to send cursed govia logo images
yuki2501@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
ArghZombies@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
EasternLettuce@lemm.ee 9 months ago
[deleted]toybastard@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Jack Dorsey is no longer part of the project.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 9 months ago
low barrier to sign up phone number required eh
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
Decentralised
[citation needed]
ArghZombies@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well, that’s the whole point of the whole thing. Bluesky is built on the AT Protocol, which will be federated early this year. bsky.social/about/…/11-15-2023-toward-federation
I know everyone likes to shit on all Social Media that isn’t called Mastodon, but that doesn’t mean Mastodon is the only option. I am on both (and Twitter a bit still too) but Bluesky is where I spend most of my time.
agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
Dlayknee@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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
dukk@programming.dev 9 months ago
Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 9 months ago
According to Similarweb the number of visitors has been going down recently, which might be part of the reason for opening up 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 definitely question how much of an impact this will actually have.
can@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I wasn’t interested enough to seek out an invite but now that’s its open I’ll register an promptly forget to ever check again. Plus someone else already took the username “can”. Who else would want that? lol
Nerrad@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Checked it out. Smells like Twitter to me.
No thanks.lawrence@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No edit posts, no deal
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky is one of the more promising micro-blogging platforms that could provide an alternative to Elon Musk’s X.
The company began as a project inside of Twitter that sought to build a decentralized infrastructure called the AT Protocol for social networking.
“What decentralization gets you is the ability to try multiple things in parallel, and so you’re not bottlenecking change on one organization,” Bluesky CEO Jay Graber told TechCrunch.
This all sounds great, but of course, the question will inevitably arise: what if a bad actor creates a moderation service or a server that has tangibly harmful consequences?
This is more of a hands-off approach, which also relies on users to take advantage of Bluesky’s customizable moderation tools to determine what online safety means to them.
Graber couldn’t have possibly anticipated that plot twist, but a year before the acquisition, she just so happened to spin Bluesky out from Twitter and into its own public benefit corporation.
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MrBungle@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Haven’t been following Blue sky stuff at all. Any reason to use this over mastodon?
bugsmith@programming.dev 9 months ago
Celebrities, politicians and businesses will be more likely to show up on the platform, if that’s your jam.
aeharding@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Seems like a downside tbh
MrBungle@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
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!
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Decentralized network. Number of servers in the network: 1.
ExLisper@linux.community 9 months ago
But the server stands a little bit to the side, not in the centre.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This comment is pure gold 🥇. You may collect your points at the door! And don’t forget to thank the lady!
banghida@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Sounds like some crypto token tbh