[HN Gopher] Bluesky makes web view public, login no longer requi...
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Bluesky makes web view public, login no longer required to read
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Author : redsolver
Score : 51 points
Date : 2023-12-22 21:56 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (bsky.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (bsky.app)
| blueridge wrote:
| It's basically Twitter.
| cfr2023 wrote:
| Good precedent, more please.
| afavour wrote:
| Too late, IMO. The invite-only system meant that the "leave
| Twitter" crowd split between Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. IMO
| none of them have ended up being great replacements.
| dt3ft wrote:
| Judging by the traffic traces (number of comments on popular
| posts), I'd have to agree.
| soperj wrote:
| Does anyone actually use threads? Everyone seemed to go check
| it out, but I don't know anyone actively using it.
| addicted wrote:
| Threads has picked up quite a bit of steam in a lot of
| communities recently. Not sure how widespread it is but it
| seems to be doing fairly well.
| vitorgrs wrote:
| It has like, 30x more users than Mastodon lol
|
| For now, it's the most viable alternative for Twitter - for
| now.
|
| But this is in part because Mastodon UX is very complicated
| for beginners, and BlueSky is slow as hell to make
| improvements. It still doesn't support sending videos...
| threeseed wrote:
| There are well over 100m MAU so a lot of people are using it.
|
| And it has reached the #1 position in most of the App Stores
| around the world.
| colordrops wrote:
| I've seen many products loose steam due to invite only. It's a
| failure to recognize heavy public interest and strike while the
| iron is hot.
| CharlesW wrote:
| Threads has been that for me, but of course YMMV depending on
| the topics you like to follow. If you haven't tried tools like
| ThreadLink, Threads Sync, etc. lately, you might be surprised.
| tptacek wrote:
| What does "too late" mean? I don't like Bluesky; it feels
| cliquish and insubstantial to me, and I do most of my Twitter-
| type writing on Mastodon now. But what am I losing by not
| writing on Twitter? I've been saying this for several months
| now, but the vibe I get from the current "fragmented" social
| media situation is of a reversion back to something like the
| heyday of Google Reader and the "blogosphere". Like: I need
| multiple browser tabs to keep track of everything?That's fine?
| It's better than when everything was crammed into a single
| site, with a single set of affordances nobody really liked.
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| I think the point was controlled growth and community quality,
| not to capture Twitter's eternal September. Let them go to
| Threads.
| mattl wrote:
| If anyone from Twitter I know is reading this and wants an invite
| code ask me via Mastodon DM or email.
| noarchy wrote:
| They've been far too slow to respond to Twitter/X's missteps to
| be able to take advantage. Threads won that race by a wide
| margin, even if it is still relatively lacking in features.
| TobyTheDog123 wrote:
| Wow!
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| Im amazed at how fast and pretty Bluesky is compared to other web
| applications, especially Twitter's.
| solardev wrote:
| Really? It feels so slow... interface took a couple seconds to
| load, and then the actual posts another 3-4 seconds. This is on
| gigabit too. Overloaded right now?
| gpjanik wrote:
| They totally missed 4-5 events of mass interest in leaving
| Twitter and now have to scramble for any interest.
| solardev wrote:
| What's Bluesky? This just looks like a Twitter clone?
| brundolf wrote:
| It's lost the initial momentum but it's not dead yet. I'm still
| holding my breath that the critical mass makes the leap
| eventually; "it's just twitter but you can write and use custom
| clients and feed algorithms" is a compelling proposition
|
| For me and a lot of others, it's the only twitter alternative we
| ever signed up for. A few never came back to twitter, but most
| did mostly for social reasons. But twitter as a platform gets
| worse each day, and if it ever truly breaks or dies, bsky will be
| the schelling point for a whole bunch of people
| jeffbee wrote:
| Most of my people seemed to have landed on bsky. Discussions
| there get shares and likes, unlike mastodon where for me it's
| just a few void-shouts per day. Threads appears to be 100% mid
| celebrities who I am sure Facebook is paying to hang around.
| adastra22 wrote:
| > it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients
| and feed algorithms
|
| Compelling for whom? For developers? I'm not sure anyone else
| will care.
| darklycan51 wrote:
| Brosky sold twitter and before he sold it it went from the best
| to the worst social media, _why_ on earth would I go back there?
| Elon might be cringe but Twitter is legitimately less neurotic
| nowadays than it was before he sold it.
| drexlspivey wrote:
| Is Bluesky and Threads basically Twitter with different
| moderation policies? I can see why someone might leave Twitter
| for Mastodon but why would you leave for one of those 2? Just
| block people you don't want to see stuff from.
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