Bluesky posts are finally open to the public::Bluesky remains an invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative, but now, you don’t need to be logged in to be able to see posts on the platform. The app has a new logo, too.
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Im curious to check it out in case anyone wants to DM me an invite code.
I have 4 invite codes, slide into my DMs if you want one.
It some ways it’s better than mastodon. Easier to start than mastodon. Less variety than mastodon though. Give it a shot if you get the chance, not too bad.
Yeah but note by “public” they really mean “if the post doesn’t require you to login”. They recently implemented a feature that lets users choose for their posts to be “public” but still require a login to see it.
The API is pretty much fully open, look up the firehose api for bluesky. This change just allows easy linking
I hope Mastodon implements a feature like that. That and account locking a la Twitter, or at least the ability to update a post’s visibility after creation.)
(Inb4 “but federation” etc: it’s better than nothing.)
You can tell that technology is advancing rapidly because now you can type short-form text on the internet and everybody can read it. Truly innovative stuff.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
If you want to prevent people who aren’t logged in from seeing your posts, you can “discourage” that by clicking a toggle in settings.
But Bluesky notes that “other apps may not honor this request” and that the toggle doesn’t make your account private.
Previously, the app’s logo was a blue sky with clouds, but “early on, we noticed that people were organically using the butterfly emoji 🦋 to indicate their Bluesky handles,” Graber says in the blog post.
And, as spotted by my colleague Parker Ortolani, the app has a fun animation that will feel familiar to fans of Twitter.
With the increasing momentum behind ActivityPub — including the very public support from Meta’s Threads — I’ve worried that Bluesky, which is based on its own AT Protocol, might get left behind.
But every time I hop over to my Bluesky account, it seems like people are having a lot of fun — the platform seems to be growing quickly, too — so hopefully the protocols can co-exist and usher in a fediverse future.
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I got sent an invite ages ago. I’ve jumped in every so often but I am always shocked by how crap it is. Mastodon is so much better.
I had the exact opposite reaction when I got my invite a few months after jumping ship to Mastodon. Mastodon just doesn’t have good discoverability and didn’t have a lot of the people I used to follow on Twitter. Bluesky’s feeds feature solves the discoverability problem; I’ve already found way more people I want to follow on there than on my entire time on Mastodon.
Same, it seems like a bunch of people that want to get off twitter but don’t pull the plug so bluesky is thier backup plan in case it doesn’t work out.
IKR? I’m disappointed that most of my favorite artists went there, instead of something like Mastodon
As an amateur artist, mastodon is really not friendly to newcomers like me.
I had to figure out what an instance was and pick one (I chose mastodon.art since I was interested in that)
After wondering why I couldn’t find other people’s accounts, it turned out that I shouldn’t have picked that instance because it had defederated from almost anyone else.
So now I had to create another account in another instance, which turned out to be so full my posts were not getting any traction.
With Bluesky I just created an account and I immediately gained a few followers
It is just not worth the hastle.
People like to pretend Mastodon is confusing
Pretend? I’m a computer nerd and I put off signing up for Mastodon for months because of how complicated it is. I completely understand why normies nope the hell off.
Im an idiotic old man who can barely repair my PC anymore and it was very easy to make an account here and on mastodon. Dunno what people are on about.
It’s not creating the account that is the problem. It’s learning what you should know about the instance you choose, then choosing an instance, and understanding how the federation of posts work. Etc.
Mastodon is confusing mostly because it doesn’t help you in any way, it just sits there and goes “you have no feeds”. Well what am I supposed to do about that?
There doesn’t seem to be a “discover” feature so you have to just magically know the usernames people already on the platform and then add them.
This is at the top of all of the mastodon servers I have an account on. If someone lacks the curiosity to click the word explore, then that is on them, not on the tech.
If someone lacks the curiosity to click the word explore
The cries of every dev throughout programming history. Why are the users so stupid?
But the thing is, uses are stupid. People get confused if you put “sign in” instead of "log in’. If lots of people think that Mastodon is confusing then Mastodon is confusing. The consensus cannot be wrong. You might disagree with it but it cannot be wrong.
It requires a UX overhaul by someone who actually understands UX and researches it. I used to do UX as my job specialization and trust me everyone thinks it’s easy and it isn’t.
Oh wow celebrities on the internet!?!?! no thanks
its kind of crazy to me how many people are moving over to that place. on one hand i appreciate that it’s somewhat containing twitter culture
protecting much better new socials like cohostbut on the other, it is frustrating to have no access to so many people who switched to blue sky’s with its bizarre and abrubt popularity as an alternative platform despite being diet fediverse.Seems like everyone and their mother has a code they’re willing to share in this thread, at least.
i was offered one but im not really interested in making an account unless i can do it on a different instance. i do not trust the official one a single bit, lol
They’re planning to open up public federation this year
the bot is just posting old news again. 🤦♂️
I got an invite, the first person I see as a reply after workout gets it
I’ll take it
ill dm i to you, it say a got another one, so the next person to reply to THIS gets that one.
I deleted my account there. I honestly didn’t get it. Lots of cult or personality posters who are desperate to be influencers. It’s exactly like Twitter except with tons of furries.
…there are no “good” billionaires. You can’t be a billionaire being a good, decent person. End of the story.
I got two invites if someone wants them
Wow, it loads almost as slowly as twitter. Users should feel right at home with that loading spinner.
