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Decentralized network. Number of servers on the network: 1.
But the server stands a little bit to the side, not in the centre.
This comment is pure gold 🥇. You may collect your points at the door! And don’t forget to thank the lady!
Why this over Mastodon?
When corporations inevitably arrive to the platform, we can use it to shame them into offering a decent service after they ignore our calls and emails.
Fleeing from Twitter to Bluesky remains one of the dumbest, most myopic decisions that people have made in recent memory. “Oh, I’m sure a Dorsey-run and designed service won’t turn out exactly like the last one did!”
Well it would certainly be a challenge to turn out worse than current twitter.
Bluesky is pretty great so far, in may i will complete 1 year and I like a lot, made many friends.
Its perfect? Of course not…
It’s an online space. You haven’t made any “friends” at all. Holy shit.
The literal elephant in the room is Mastodon, the open source, decentralized social network that’s been around since 2016, years before Bluesky existed. While the platforms share similar goals, they use different protocols, making it difficult for the platforms to work together.
Quick, someone link the xkcd
I like it over there. Of all the Twitter alternatives I think it ticks the right boxes.
- Decentralised
- Low barrier to sign up
- Not owned by a crazed billionaire
- No ads
- No popularity algorithm
- Interesting features, like custom feeds and moderation lists
If they can bridge their AT Protocol with ActivityPub then I don’t see why it can’t take off.
Theres a group of devs that have been working on a bridge between the protocols I found out about while digging for info about Bluesky.
Haven’t been following Blue sky stuff at all. Any reason to use this over mastodon?
Celebrities, politicians and businesses will be more likely to show up on the platform, if that’s your jam.
Ah gotcha. I’m kind of enjoying just hanging with regular people being regular on mastodon. Probably check out bluesky at some point.
Thanks for the info!
As an American you’re supposed to consider yourself a temporarily inconvenienced superstar millionaire, so maybe you should get over to there to hob nob with the rich foke.
SMS verification?
Eeeeh… :-/
Does anybody remember when Twitter ran basically exclusively over SMS?
Is that the only way?
Yes. It’s the second step in the sign-up process. And you can’t see anything without signing up.
That’s too bad
