Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public

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• LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m really happy with Mastodon. I don’t plan on going on bluesky.

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• blunderworld@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What is X?

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  • giantfloppycock@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like that’s a conversation you should have had with your parents by now.

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    • blunderworld@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “When a failing social media platform and a billionaire narcissist love each other very much…”

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    • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’re going to send X to a farm upstate.

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  • Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Really soft core porn. You need to get into the triple Xs to get to the good stuff.

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m glad we can rely on @Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world for solid words of advice on this subject.

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  • andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

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  • DunkinCoder@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The one who’s gonna give it to ya.

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    • blunderworld@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But do they deliver to ya?

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  • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • WaterWaiver@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The formerly successful website known as Twitter

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  • WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A letter in the alphabet.

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• furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  no thanks 👍

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• antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How can a website be trendy if nobody could use it until now?

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could use it, but only by invitation.

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• makeasnek@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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. lemmy.ml/post/11570081

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • makeasnek@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      • 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.
      • 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 basically the same. This means relays can choose what content they allow and ban users/topics/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. So you get the best of both worlds: relays have curated, moderated public squares while not reducing your ability to choose who to follow and who can follow you.

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  • banghida@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t nostr something something Bitcoin?

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    • makeasnek@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It has an optional built-in tipping function where you can tip users (and receive tips) if you like their posts. Just like reddit had. Pretty cool imo but not required to use the platform.

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  • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d just like to inerject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Nostr, is in fact one of the clients using Nostr as its protocol to communicate with other platforms using the Nostr protocol. 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!

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    • bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i also would like to interject and say i don't trust anyone involved with the development or promotion of nostr.

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    • makeasnek@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes very true!

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  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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  The original article contains 1,180 words, the summary contains 217 words. Saved 82%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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• Resol@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah

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• MusketeerX@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every new social media site will start out like that, whether the platform itself is amazing or another corporate shithole.

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• noxy@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Put another way, the hype mechanism of “invite-only” stopped bringing enough hype to justify it.

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