Bluesky continues to soar

blue_berry OP , 4 hours ago

Even if it doesnt have much impact on activitypub-fedi, I think this is good news for the fediverse in general. X is loosing more and more relevancy and microblogging is more and more happening on federating services.

Lost_My_Mind , 3 hours ago

I’m having trouble figuring out how bluesky is part of the fediverse at all.

From my understanding it doesn’t federate with anything.

It’s like saying a hamburger is really just a cheeseburger…you just need to add cheese.

mesamunefire , 3 hours ago

It has an adapter that integrated with the current protocol.

AsudoxDev , 1 hour ago (edited 1 minute ago)

Oh great. That bridge even federates with the bitcoin bros’ network (nostr)

NoiseColor , 54 minutes ago

Which one is that. I guess I’ve been left out of the loop.

threelonmusketeers , 47 minutes ago

Maybe they mean Nostr? If so, describing it as “the bitcoin bros’ network” is a bit misleading, since the “crypto” portion of Nostr is short for “cryptography”, not “cryptocurrency”.

MyOpinion , 3 hours ago

Blue sky leads to the same trap Twitter was. A place that will be purchased by some asshole that shits on everyone for money.

axum , 3 hours ago

You’ll be shocked to know that bluesky is open source then and PDS is well on its way to allowing you to host your own instance.

Annoyed_Crabby , 2 hours ago

I’m shocked to learn that Reddit is opensource back then.

Blaze , 21 minutes ago

In its developer’s blog, Bluesky stressed that “guardrails” are still in place. Most significantly, users can only self-host their own accounts for now, and in the next phase, self-hosted servers will initially be limited to 10 accounts each, with rate limits on usage.

theverge.com/…/bluesky-self-hosting-servers-data-…

What is the status now?

mesamunefire , 3 hours ago

Mastodon just went over the 2 million user mark. The switch to fediverse and fediverse adjacent is going pretty quick.

SquiffSquiff , 1 hour ago

I’ve been on Mastodon for over a year and the content simply isn’t there. Several of the people that I follow on Twitter have tried moving or duplicating to Mastodon. They’ve had a fraction of the visibility and engagement from commenters that they would get on Twitter. Invariably after a few months they have essentially given up on it as a primary medium. For me the discoverability is essentially non-existent, which I don’t think is helped by the idea of it being based around instance-local communities, which have no meaning when you’re looking at something like Twitter.

mesamunefire , 1 hour ago

Guess it’s not for you then. I’m having a blast. A lot of my friends are now in it and the last year or so have been great.

And more and more people seem to be moving.

mycodesucks , 1 hour ago

Maybe, just maybe, if your followers aren’t willing to give up something vile because it’s giving them a dopamine hit, they’re not adding as much value to your life as you think.

SquiffSquiff , 39 seconds ago

people I follow

haui_lemmy , 1 minute ago

„The content“ is there. Its just the addiction inducing, never ending dopamine that doesnt flow as freely which is great.

If you follow the topics that are most prevalent on the fedi (eg freedom, activism, technology, diversity) you will not run out unless you scroll for many hours a day, which is suggests you find yourself a hobby.

Also, the self fulfilling prophecy of „the fediverse is too small, I go to big platform“ will keep the fediverse small.

Be the change you want to see.

Lemminary , 2 hours ago

Jack Dorsey left the board, so I’m ok with that. Good for them!

onlinepersona , 2 hours ago

People will never learn, will they? You give them AP and they go for the Jack Dorsey clone. Amazing

Anti Commercial-AI license

Tywele , 2 hours ago

Jack Dorsey is not involved in Bluesky anymore.

Rayspekt , 1 hour ago

I’m way too federated for this.

AutoPastry , 7 minutes ago

Great, you can host your own instance!

poVoq , 2 hours ago

It would be interesting to know more about the additional users. The banning of Shitter in Brazil is very much tied to internal politics and AFAIK it might be the Brazilian equivalent to MAGA that is currently mass-migrating to Bluesky.

If so, this might be a bad thing for them, as they probably don’t want to get perceived as the Brazilian truth.social.

orgrinrt , 20 minutes ago

I would assume that since this whole thing is more or less a result of left-ish policy, and the opponent in the scenario is the far-right platform formerly known as Twitter, lead by the aspiring far-right icon Musk, the right-wingers would more likely opt to complain, cry several rivers and eventually turn to alternatives catered specifically for them (not even sure which ones are still alive after former tweetyplace took the crown) instead.

Haven’t done a vibe check on bluesky, but I assume it almost has to be more tolerant and potentially more progressive-ish than the old nazibirdhouse. If you lean towards the far right, why choose that, if alternatives exist?

poVoq , 4 minutes ago

Bluesky is explicitly promoting their system as “choose your own censorship” kind of deal, which in the way it is framed could look very attractive to right-wingers looking for an alternative platform. While this is technically also true for the Fediverse, it isn’t promoted as such, and rather has a reputation for the opposite, as most fedi server admins are center-left leaning.

Bluesky might be also more left-leaning right now as obviously there is little reason for right-wingers elsewhere to switch away from Shitter to another (mostly) centralised platform, but given the overall low user numbers this could switch very quickly.

I guess we will have to see how this develops over time and get some answers from Brazilians that have a deeper understanding of the current social dynamics there.

Due to the language divide it might end up as two distinct social spheres, like Fedi’s Japanese bubble, but that’s a best case scenario for Bluesky I guess.