You can tell that technology is advancing rapidly because now you can type short-form text on the internet and everybody can read it. Truly innovative stuff.

I got sent an invite ages ago. I've jumped in every so often but I am always shocked by how crap it is. Mastodon is so much better.

They missed their chances. When I got the invite a few weeks ago, I did no longer care, because I already switched to Lemmy. There's no place for Bluesky anymore, they missed the Twitter exodus and the Reddit one. They should've send my code years ago but didn't. Such a fail of a company.

Can someone explain to me how Bluesky is different than Mastodon and if it’s not different why they bothered creating it when Mastodon exists? I truly don’t get it.

I got my "early" invite code a couple weeks ago and it was pretty cool finding accounts I'd previously followed on Twitter... and seeing how they haven't posted in months

its kind of crazy to me how many people are moving over to that place. on one hand i appreciate that it's somewhat containing twitter culture protecting much better new socials like cohost but on the other, it is frustrating to have no access to so many people who switched to blue sky's with its bizarre and abrubt popularity as an alternative platform despite being diet fediverse.

Now everyone can see how shit it is.

Yeah but note by "public" they really mean "if the post doesn't require you to login". They recently implemented a feature that lets users choose for their posts to be "public" but still require a login to see it.

Hope you like furries and dicks

I wonder why they keep their platform so closed off. It'll never ever go anywhere if people can't even use it.

All it has to do is copy Twitter when it was good some years ago, and do it very reliably. That's it.

Why are people here, on this federated platform, excited for a centralized twitter clone that will eventually, inevitably, succumb to the same fate?

What do y'all think we can learn or adapt from Bluesky's protocol(s)/innovations?

oh good

First time I'm seeing what it looks like. Looks exactly like Twitter.

I got my invite and quickly deleted it when I found out that everyone there loved James Gunn and came at me for pointing out he can't be the flagship celeb to advertise the platform. My notifications blew up for days. It wasn't worth sticking around getting harassed when I'm not the bad person!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

If you want to prevent people who aren’t logged in from seeing your posts, you can “discourage” that by clicking a toggle in settings.

But Bluesky notes that “other apps may not honor this request” and that the toggle doesn’t make your account private.

Previously, the app’s logo was a blue sky with clouds, but “early on, we noticed that people were organically using the butterfly emoji 🦋 to indicate their Bluesky handles,” Graber says in the blog post.

And, as spotted by my colleague Parker Ortolani, the app has a fun animation that will feel familiar to fans of Twitter.

With the increasing momentum behind ActivityPub — including the very public support from Meta’s Threads — I’ve worried that Bluesky, which is based on its own AT Protocol, might get left behind.

But every time I hop over to my Bluesky account, it seems like people are having a lot of fun — the platform seems to be growing quickly, too — so hopefully the protocols can co-exist and usher in a fediverse future.

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