Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, is pausing new signups “temporarily” to try and resolve performance issues it’s been experiencing after Twitter introduced limits on the amount of tweets you can see in a day. Even though you still need an invite code to be able to join Bluesky, it seems that the influx of new users has been a problem.
Irrespective of the popular success which Bluesky / Mastodon may receive, I am simply glad that enough platforms exist for anyone to seek refuge in if the rapacity by these giants becomes the norm.
The majority of social media sites (with the exception of youtube imo) don’t provide anything of value. A smart high school kid could write a twitter clone over a weekend. The only thing these websites have to offer is their large user base.
EDIT: OK, I apparently upset some people. I was exagerating when I said it could be done in a weekend, but my point stands that it’s pretty easy to make a twitter clone/reddit clone, and the challenge in succeeding for twitter is getting a user base. The tech is incredibly easy to build.
Exactly. OG content creators, shit posters and lurkers make the Eco system work.
In that order.
Once some corp spook starts fucking with the Eco system, quality of discourse goes down until the platform gets gutted.
I don’t want shit marketed to me. I am looking to shoot ideas and have some push back on assumptions
Putting me into echo chamber via cohort groups or shoving endless ads provides me with zero benefit, daddy
This is a pretty good example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Twitter is much more than the simple frontend you see when you click on the website, there is absolutely no way a single person could recreate it in a month, less alone a weekend.
Is bluesky part of fediverse?
No but it is decentralized
bluesky is crap. it requires an invite and id verification. 100% will turn into a fascist navel-gazing network.
Well that certainly is a hot take
Id verification since when? I haven’t done that.
jack is a fascist so it shouldnt surprise anyone
The rest of the platforms which will still be using anonymous access will be invaded by AI’s astroturfing their stuff into your face. Which one do you prefer?
It’s literally impossible for any social network to ever under any circumstances be relevant/important enough that asking for an ID could theoretically be forgivable under any circumstances, let alone valid.
There are very few scenarios where any website asking for an ID should even be legal. It’s a massive and inexcusable privacy issue.
People won’t fight for privacy. They already know that they are spied on but still they do not react.
But it claims it will become decentralized (unless something has changed in the last month or so).
I believe they opened things up to developers recently. I do think they will become decentralized, but am more concerned it will become a “no censorship” aka “no moderation” mess pretty quickly. It relies quite heavily on filters and aggregators rather than moderators.
No. It’s decentralized like the Fediverse, but it doesn’t use ActivityPub. I think there are some 3rd party developers working on an ActivityPub-Bluesky bridge, but nothing concrete yet.
Isn’t it also just not open to federation at the moment? So the federated/decentralized aspect could just be vaporware and never happen. I don’t even begin to take their word for it until it stops being de-facto centralized.
I’m no expert, but I found this blogpost insightful: BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization
They’re making their own federation. They brought in Mastodon consultants and have set up their own AT Protocol and of course we’re activitypub. To federate everyone their would need to be a bridge between AT and activitypub