Everybody wants an invite.

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.

      • yesdogishere
        28•2 years ago

        bluesky is crap. it requires an invite and id verification. 100% will turn into a fascist navel-gazing network.

        • Mnmalst
          2•2 years ago

          Id verification since when? I haven’t done that.

        • PabloDiscobar
          1•2 years ago

          bluesky is crap. it requires an invite and id verification. 100% will turn into a fascist navel-gazing network.

          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?

          • conciselyverbose
            1•2 years ago

            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.

            • PabloDiscobar
              2•2 years ago

              People won’t fight for privacy. They already know that they are spied on but still they do not react.

      • AshDene
        7•2 years ago

        But it claims it will become decentralized (unless something has changed in the last month or so).

        • Machinist3359
          3•2 years ago

          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.

    • onepinksheep
      12•2 years ago

      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.

      • MeowdyPardner
        9•2 years ago

        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.

        • Clairvoidance
          13•2 years ago

          I’m no expert, but I found this blogpost insightful: BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization

          The more I read about BS’s protocol, the more I think this is done on purpose.
          Why? Because it allows BS to pay lip service to decentralization, without actually giving away the power in the system.
          […]
          Another pretty good sign that BS’s decentralization is actually b.s. is the fact that the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) used by BlueSky are currently “temporarily” not actually decentralized. The protocol uses something imaginatively called “DID Placeholder”. If I were a betting man I would bet that in five years it will keep on using the centralized DID Placeholder, and that that will be a root cause of a lot of shenanigans.
          […]
          it decentralizes the cost to the central authority by pushing data load onto volunteers, while planning to keep control by being the biggest kid on the “reach” block.

    • 1chemistdown
      2•2 years ago

      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