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
A smart high school kid could write a twitter clone over a weekend
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.
bluesky is crap. it requires an invite and id verification. 100% will turn into a fascist navel-gazing network.
But it claims it will become decentralized (unless something has changed in the last month or so).
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.
As someone that had never used Twitter, why use this over Mastodon?
Presumably, discovery is a lot better.
Having used both Twitter and Mastadon, discovery on Mastadon is essentially impossible. You have to already know who you want to follow, there is no mechanism in place to help you actually find content you might be interested in.
This makes me feel better. I thought it was just me having a terrible time trying to find content on Mastodon.
I thought it was currently invite only? Is that not the case?
I’m rooting for the federated platforms, but there is clearly a need for a basic simple twitter replacement.
I managed to get a code today and signup maybe an hour before they locked out invites :)