Official account of Bluesky announced that it got 1 million new users since the registration was opened to everyone.
I don’t think Bluesky is better than any instance on Fediverse, but we need to make changes I guess.
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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If it kills Twitter it will be a net benefit to the world
It won’t be, because it’s just another Twitter.
Lol, correct.
But Elon loses more money and we don't have to hear about him or Twitter as much
It feels like the Twitter from just before Elon when it was still bad but not terrible, I was hoping it would be more like the Twitter from 10+ years ago when it was still reasonable.
I waited 4 months for my invite, took a look around and went back to Mastodon.
Old twitter was bad, modern twitter pays to show everyone bigoted propaganda and actively courts Nazis. Mastodon is better, but most don’t want the inconveniences. So yeah blue sky it is
Mastodon's AGPL license will always be better though
I'm on Lemmy, I'm already sold on the fediverse idea, even though I haven't read the AGPL license :)
Yeah but if mastodon itself (the community and content) isn't better, then it's a moot point
Oh get the fuck out of here. All Bluesky has is celebrities and celebrity journalists, big fuckin whoop.
I'd way rather talk to real human beings instead of the Public Relations Team of a bunch of wankers.
Sorry, most humans are obsessive about stupid celebrity culture, and that doesn't mean it's a better product. It means it's a more vapid product.
I'm glad blue sky exists for two reasons:
- It will likely contribute to more Elon meltdowns
- It acts as a containment zone for celebrity and brand worship that's marginally less bad than twitter
Celebrity and brand containment zone is the first good argument I’ve heard to date.
Yeah I’m going to support the movement as long as Trump will not appear on it.
Not comparable, one is centered around people and the other around topics
I really wanna like mastodon more and have tried 3 different instances now (2 niche and one larger instance) but I like the community on bluesky better for my particular niche. It seems to be where a lot of art twitter went when things got shitty over there.
I saw many artists going to Misskey.io because it's main instance even English speaking ones until they gone back to twitter, stayed on Misskey or half measures. Then because of EN influx in mainly Japanese server , Misskey.io closed doors to non-Japanese add in fact that Misskey or rather any federated service can't oblige to European Union protection standard which means they can't operate in EU officially.
So I see lots of messages on Misskey about artists making blue sky accounts as well... All depends where they get more views I guess or have people supporting them around.
lmk when they bother to federate.
otherwise it’s just a worse twitter.
"Mastodon? Why use a free decentralized option when I can give my data to a billionaire?" - People around me.
"What could possibly happen?"
Surely this one won't end up the same as all the others before.
I just wish it supported hashtags, the feeds thing it has going on feels clumsy. Sticking to Mastodon for now.
I signed up and so far my feed seems to be dominated by a lot of bird pics. I guess that's fitting for a site called bluesky?
Unless they're owls as they're nocturnal. Blacksky doesn't have the same vibe though.
That's the emo version.
Aaaand keyword blocked. Tired of this VC shit showing up on my feed.
That’s great news. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
No
Jack is (or was) a muskrat fan, I'll probably migrate there when every artist that I care about starts going, but I prefer to stay here and on misskey.
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. https://lemmy.ml/post/11570081
Great post, I was looking for a comparison of nostr and AP because it seemed like basically the same thing to me and your post explained it perfectly. After reading it, I have to agree that nostr is a better solution for the fediverse.
Glad you liked it :)
Could the Nostr protocol be incorporated into existing applications like Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon etc?
It could be "bolted on" to the side, some people are working on tgat, but there are some very basic premises where they differ which make it difficult (such as an AP account being tied to an instance whereas a nostr account is not). It's like asking "can email be intergrated with slack". Well, yes, kinda, but it's not going to be as smooth as if they used the same underlying protocol in the first place.
Bot farms are always early adopters
The best thing about bluesky is they have the custom feeds and now you can have your following feed include some posts from your custom feeds. So its a mix of “following” (chronological) and for you (custom feed) which is great
There’s a bridge in development that should be interesting https://www.docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed
I wonder how people will feel once more bluesky servers show up and it suddenly becomes "too complicated".
The only thing I care about is: Will this be enough to pull critical mass from Twitter? I don't think I'll ever join, because twitter life made me very unhappy, but the sooner journalists and high-volume celebs move off twitter, the sooner it can be relegated to Truth Social 2 and that, I think, will make the world a slightly better place.