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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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I got my invite and quickly deleted it when I found out that everyone there loved James Gunn and came at me for pointing out he can’t be the flagship celeb to advertise the platform. My notifications blew up for days. It wasn’t worth sticking around getting harassed when I’m not the bad person!
Deleted mine. Nothing ever happened then the big news was some guy from Lockheed Martin was being a sex pest towards women by getting them to pity him, starting to think bluesky doesn’t attract the best people
The public feed is 99% naked furries and you have to click their profile to see more naked furries to mute them. No thanks.
Muting is at least something you can do from any post now.
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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Who cares? Just use Twitter. Anyone who is anyone is on twitter.
the bot is just posting old news again. 🤦♂️
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Boooo!
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’ll take that one
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They missed their chances. When I got the invite a few weeks ago, I did no longer care, because I already switched to Lemmy. There’s no place for Bluesky anymore, they missed the Twitter exodus and the Reddit one. They should’ve send my code years ago but didn’t. Such a fail of a company.
I deleted my Bluesky account because no one who i invited used it. And bluesky invites are not even hot anymore, the last time i posted a bunch online no one grabbed them.
Mastodon and Lemmy fills my void enough i don’t need extra places to go
I only got on Bluesky a couple of months ago after a long wait, and honestly I don’t think I’ve been on there once since setting up the account. A trickle of my Twitter contacts seemed to move over there in the early days but the trickle dried up and it doesn’t look like many people are on there.
I hope it still finds a niche for itself, but the ridiculous invite rationing thing really does seem to have killed the momentum for them.
I’ve also lost interest in Mastodon, although again I’m willing to give it another go if it continues to grow. Mostly I’ve just found that I don’t really need to replace Twitter in my life; I’m just fine without it…
I’ve noted a lot of folks finding the same. Once you remove the addicting algorithm feeding you, you realise it gets boring once you’ve checked on it for a few minutes. Not that having a fedi account is a bad thing, if orgs and govt dished out updates via a fedi account (on their own server) I’d get behind that. I hate having to log into fb or wherever to find out info that should be on a website; a fediverse account would be a nice compromise IMO.
The thing that made Twitter a legitimately interesting platform to be on was really the way it enabled direct communication with “big” names. Celebrities if that’s your thing, but for me it was more journalists, commentators and politicians (being the circle my interests move in).
There was nowhere else like it for having a national TV journalist post something, replying to them, and them having a conversation back with you on simple equal footing. Similarly, I had several “big names” follow me or follow people who follow me, who’d occasionally see my posts and comment or react; not something that could happen without it.
If Bluesky or Mastodon had the same wide traction and the same culture of communication maybe it’d capture my interest again.
The reason why I’ve found Lemmy so much more appealing is because fundamentally Reddit didn’t rely on that sort of culture at all. The Reddit culture is one that transfers much more easily to a smaller community like Lemmy, and it scratches that itch for me just fine.
I got the email a couple of days ago. I got halfway excited, I went to install the app, I got distracted, and I haven’t bothered to finish logging in yet. Back when I put in the application I was genuinely wanting to check it out but it seems like now there’s enough on offer that network effects are going to kill it whatever they do.
Sounds like someone’s upset they weren’t invited earlier lol.
Lol
I got my “early” invite code a couple weeks ago and it was pretty cool finding accounts I’d previously followed on Twitter… and seeing how they haven’t posted in months
…there are no “good” billionaires. You can’t be a billionaire being a good, decent person. End of the story.
What do y’all think we can learn or adapt from Bluesky’s protocol(s)/innovations?
To do better.
What do you think they did wrong?
Invite codes for so instances dont have to be approval only it can be approval and invite
Subdomain based usernames instead of two @‘s like @nix.merv.news as my username so every OS doesnt think its an email when clicking. Plus its easier because I can just share nix.merv.news and people can just click it and go to it.
Being able to change your @ without losing your posts. Being able to keep your followers if your instance goes down
Now everyone can see how shit it is.
Still better than Threads
That’s not a very high bar to exceed
Wow, it loads almost as slowly as twitter. Users should feel right at home with that loading spinner.
I wonder why they keep their platform so closed off. It’ll never ever go anywhere if people can’t even use it.
All it has to do is copy Twitter when it was good some years ago, and do it very reliably. That’s it.
tbh they are too late at this point. they could have came in early when their invites were a hot thing or when threads opened up.
Because the moderation tools aren’t ready for opening it up fully. You can already clone the code and run your own servers
I wonder why they keep their platform so closed off.
Pretty normal for any kind of new software.
Why are people here, on this federated platform, excited for a centralized twitter clone that will eventually, inevitably, succumb to the same fate?
A billionaire proof social network run by a billionaire. Federated only with itself. Has a .xyz domain name.
I feel like I’m living in an episode of Silicon Valley.
Jack isn’t involved anymore iirc. He got bullied off the platform & now just does his thing on whatever Nostr is
