Notices tagged with bluesky, page 2

A PSA for people active on #Bluesky: your block list is PUBLIC information.

A website that tracks Bluesky stats – which I am not naming here on purpose – makes this job super easy: you can enter *any* username and see the accounts any user has blocked.

(Yes I tested it with my account and was horrified)

I'm alarmed by this because the information could be weaponized for abuse.

Muting may be the safer choice then?

Please read up about Bluesky here: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ (by @cwebber)

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'm currently working on a new article for #TheFutureIsFederated on this topic:

"If #BigTech = Big Food and the #Fediverse is a healthy home-cooked meal, then what is #Bluesky?"

(I found a great food analogy for it – and spoiler alert: I wouldn't describe it as a healthy home-cooked meal).

In the meantime, if you want to read the best, most insightful analysis and critique of Bluesky, there is this brilliant deep dive by @cwebber: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

Additionally, #BlueSky does not run on ActivityPub. I doubt it will ever work seamlessly with Mastodon instances.

We’ve already learned, repeatedly, that corporate owned social networks don’t work. ActivityPub (or a similar technology) that is not owned & controlled by a single for-profit entity - and where the data is decentralized - is the way to go.

The current challenge is that many potential users find the fediverse confusing & intimidating. (2/2)

@mcc @jstevenyork The current hype with #BlueSky is a mixed bag. I’m happy to see users move away from X, and BlueSky is 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 a pretty good platform.

The key word is 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺. Just like Twitter of yore, BlueSky is a for-profit company. Enshittification is inevitable. Users are locked in to the platform and the the company is beholden to VCs / shareholders. (1/2)

I'm loyal to #mastodon 💪🏾. I joined dis app to be free of allat shit . Fk #bluesky 👎🏾.
This bitch be bussing 💯 .
Y'all don't go leaving now 😒
We got fire this bitch up to be the #1 social app.
I looking for mo folks to fw . Follow me to connect. If you just joined. I wanna make mastodon fire 🔥
Love Jaden ❤️
#introduction #introductions

Notes on Running a Full-Network AtProto Relay for Bluesky

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/entries/Notes%20on%20Running%20a%20Full-Network%20atproto%20Relay%20(July%202024)
#bluesky #atproto

Hace un tiempo leí que #Bluesky estaba diseñado por gente que piensa en el usuario, no como Mastodon que está hecho por programadores frikis. 🤯

Supongo que por eso allí tienen citas, listas de bloqueo y starter packs pero no traducción integrada, modos de privacidad de los mensajes, edición de los susodichos, desactivación de rt de usuarios particulares (si sigues a alguien, te comes todos sus compartidos) o marcadores privados (que hasta Twitter tenía). 🤷🏻♂️

@galacticstone Did Dorsey keep or sell his #Bluesky shares when he left? 🤔

Also recently read about a "$15 million Series A financing round led by #Blockchain Capital." 😂https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

Yeah we definitely shouldn't trust social media companies!

#Mastodon also has many issues though: https://mastodon.social/@zvavybir@social.zvavybir.eu/113419606951681702

#Bluesky & #Mastodon are surging right now. Let me introduce myself.

Hi. I'm a director & filmmaker, a lover of #books, #linguistics, extinct nations, & #exoplanets, an #anthro / #history nerd, a #scifi fan, & a traveler. I am slowly learning #nahuatl, too.

Catch me on #youtube at Trekspertise & on the Wikisurfer podcast.

#introduction
#archaeology
#anthropology
#Exoplanets
#filmmaking

Threads : blocked from day one.

Blue Sky : blocked from day one.

Crypto-broligarchs keep making them and I'll keep blocking them.

They are cancers.

#Threads #BlueSky #Twitter #Instagram #Facebook

@galacticstone #FCKFacebook 👍 (is #MarkZuckerberg 👺 in crypto?)

Not sure about where #Bluesky is heading yet 🤷

When I asked the same question of the #photography community here about a practical and noticeable difference between #FullFrame and #MFT / #M43 when shot at high ISO, you guys stepped up and actually helped and answered.

I have more followers on #Bluesky, and only interaction I got was a like from @simon_diamond, someone to whom I regularly chat anyway.

It feels like there're no real #community spirit there. Reminds me of why I ignored Bluesky after getting an invite at the beginning.

Somebody with deep knowledge about #ActivityPub (the decentralized #Fediverse protocol that #Mastodon is also using) & the architecture of #Bluesky wrote a long-read about the wrong impression that Bluesky is a decentralized or #federated service.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

In short: no, it's not. It's yet another centralized company that can - and according to experience - will go south some day.

«There are multiple ways this could end up being a problem for the decentralized world; one irritating way is that people might believe there's an "easy decentralized way to do things" that Bluesky has discovered which isn't actually that at all, and another is that Bluesky could collapse at some point and that people might walk away with the impression of "oh well, we tried #decentralization and that didn't work... remember Bluesky?"»

Do spare you extra work & maintain your social network here instead. It'll outlive the centralized alternatives.

And try to teach journalists!

#Federation

This is the #bluesky critique I wish I would have written! I didn’t because I didn’t feel I had spent enough time in the depths of their tech to really be sure I’m not misunderstanding things, but my core points would have been largely the same. @cwebber did spend the time, and more power to her!

Highly recommended.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

For now, let's revel in Bluesky's promised land and kid ourselves it will never get like X | Tim Adams

#KindnessRespectOnline #NewSocialMediaPromisedLand #ElonMuskX #Bluesky #BanalShoutyExtremes

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/24/bluesky-promised-land-x-social-media

In this searing investigative report on #Bluesky, @davetroy asks how are the users flocking there safe from EXACTLY THE SAME THING that happened at Twitter/X?

https://america2.news/without-sky-social-media-and-the-end-of-reality/

"Notably, Musk has not made any mention of Bluesky and the exodus of some 20 million people from X. In the past, he has railed against Threads and Substack. This time... crickets. It's as if he has a plan in mind to use Bluesky to his advantage. Perhaps he intends to buy it. We don't know. Plan accordingly."

For those on #bluesky #coys
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o66bj7shwur23ic7zpermpiw/post/3layivmuri32o

I am currently searching for accounts I follow on Xitter on Bluesky, and following them if I find them on the Azure Theropod. I also search for the same accounts on Mastodon, against Bluesky's enshittification or the asteroid strike of a billionaire purchase of said Azure Theropod. Bluesky and Mastodon are like two different flavors of ice cream, say, Bluesky a good vanilla, Mastodon say, pistachio. Or mango gelato...

#X #Twitter #Mastodon #Bluesky #azuretheropod #enshittification

Deutsche so abhängig vom Führerprinzip, dass sie soziale Netzwerke ohne Führer einfach nicht ertragen.

#bsky #bluesky #JackLovesNazis (and already did so when he still owned Twitter)