Bluesky looks and functions like Twitter at the outset, but the platform stands out because of what lies under the hood.

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  • ArghZombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    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.

    The original article contains 875 words, the summary contains 163 words. Saved 81%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • JaymesRS@literature.cafeEnglish
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    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…

  • MrBungle@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Haven’t been following Blue sky stuff at all. Any reason to use this over mastodon?

    • bugsmith@programming.devEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Celebrities, politicians and businesses will be more likely to show up on the platform, if that’s your jam.

      • MrBungle@lemmy.caEnglish
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        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!

        • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          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.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        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).

      • __init__@programming.devEnglish
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        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.

      • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Yes. It’s the second step in the sign-up process. And you can’t see anything without signing up.

  • Dlayknee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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

  • Ragdoll X@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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.worksEnglish
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      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

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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!”

    • Gabe@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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      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…

      • Toda@programming.devEnglish
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        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.

        • Gabe@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I started following back everyone who followed me. and a crucial point of Bluesky is that you have to interact, otherwise no one knows you exist, they won’t start interacting with you out of nowhere. Enter other people’s conversations without fear (but with respect, of course) this helped me a lot to fit in. Looking for people with similar tastes is also a good tip, I talk a lot about football and video games.

          • Toda@programming.devEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Thanks, I’ll keep all that in mind. It’s something I’m hoping to get out of the Fediverse too. I just need to push myself to be more active, rather than just passively consuming.

    • Ilgaz@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Good billionaire owner who sold his stuff to evil one.

        • Ilgaz@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I thought this was the network for “bright people” ;-) They are really thinking to join.

          I posted the same comment without joking a month ago. A more direct one. See its score: https://lemm.ee/comment/7775363

          • crazyCat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Yeah agreed. In his case though I was referring less to the fact he’s a billionaire (which is actually more relevant than what I was thinking about it) than that I used to think he was one of the “good ones” but then later learned to enough about him (but not much, still) to not be impressed anymore.

    • bugsmith@programming.devEnglish
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      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.worldEnglish
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      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.

      • Edher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        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