Bluesky

“have them indexed and distributed through all kinds of AT Proto services and apps, including, but not limited to Bluesky”

“Bluesky the company/app certainly isn't perfect, but the model they pioneer is very much designed to help fix this exact problem.”

“On Bluesky/ATProto, I am free to chose my own algorithm or my own client software and affiliate with the people I want to.”

“a non-attention hacking algorithm is super, super nice because it helps cut out crap and show content in the niches I care about”

“Locking knowledge into a benignly-ruled centralised blackbox instead of a despicably-ruled centralised blackbox isn't solving the core problem.”

“Bluesky has a weed problem, but eventually you can tune the algorithm to only show you thirty or forty posts about weed every day.”

“The default tab on Bluesky is a chronological feed from just the people you follow, with no algorithm, just how most people want it.”

“But by the aims of the company itself, moving social media from proprietary platforms to open protocols, it's a major success.”

“Every app can "see" the entire network (unlike in ActivityPub) so there's a lot less motivation to create these fragmented views into it.”

“Many users just want their handle to reflect their identity on the web, and are ok trusting BlueSky to host their PDS for free.”

“Not arguing that Bluesky is wildly successful, with stagnating growth etc but as with fediverse, many have found community there as well”

“whatever "censorship" Bluesky imposes can be avoided with different clients in most cases and different PDSs in worst cases”

“The day Bluesky decides to enshittify there's a very real possibility that they might also just stop allowing people to extract their keys”

“The day Bluesky decides to enshittify there’s a very real possibility that they might also just stop allowing people to extract their keys”

“When Bluesky goes rogue because of profitability issues or VC pressure, the vast vast majority of users lose their identities on the wider network.”

“Bluesky's dependence on VC money and for-profit structure means it has a conflict of interest with long-term survival and independence of the protocol.”

“Independently developed applications are meaningfully interoperable (more so than most AP apps, especially leveraging DIDs).”

“the engineering problems with that are also found in newer social networks like Bluesky, with a little less engagement addiction focus.”

“Bluesky proves you can start a social media company in the time of Meta and have it be successful, given its slanty take on politics.”

“The level of entitlement, paranoia, and misdirected rage was unexpected for what I thought was supposed to be a more... sane? alternative”

“If we were judging sites on misinformation/conspiracies and the people that are hurt by it, BlueSky would be shutdown immediately and liquidated.”

“They don’t do that kind of stuff on BlueSky either and do better there, and BlueSky doesn’t have the audacity to demand a paid subscription.”

“There's more ROI posting there, even ignoring the fact that BlueSky and Mastodon are projects clearly more aligned with internet freedom than X is.”

“is most of the way to a great alternative with a fair amount of users but it still needs to get over its "twitter for liberal nerds" reputation”

“designing the entire protocol such that if the company itself misbehaves the affected users can leave to a separate instance”

“As a user, I generally agree with the Blue MAGA sentiments, even though it is much more diverse than that and you can filter out political content if you want.”

“Bluesky's growth to millions of users and the expanding AT Protocol ecosystem suggest the hybrid model has achieved broader traction”

“The fact that the system is built around this escape hatch makes it miles better than almost all other social networks.”

“Bluesky is architected so you can export your data and follows and followers to your own or someone else's infrastructure at any time.”

“Bluesky has been shrinking gradually since the 2024 election, as people interested in political effectiveness or even avoiding a hugbox have drifted away”

“Furry art, including quite explicit furry art, is very common on bluesky and doesn't seem be especially restricted by policy.”

“Bsky is designed so that the microservices themselves can be decentralized and so multiple different types of apps can be built on the same protocol/infra.”

“I find Bluesky really far more interested in good engagement and discussion, better at looking for signal than anywhere else.”

“It's a good place for me for posting photos and links but I have an absolute policy against following anyone who says anything about politics”

“Bluesky is not locking anyone out. This is literally a user setting to not display their account without logging in.”

“the dm (direct message) functionality itself isn't decentralized and bluesky even mentions it/shows it that its unencrypted and centralized”

“Bluesky does offer a chronological feed, but the well-intentioned blocklists just became the chief tool for the mean girls of the site.”

“BlueSky for me is a mix of people who are trying their hardest in my city to make improvements but also creating a very insular community”

“I do think Bluesky, in general, is a lot like the Twitter of, say, 15 years ago, where the quality of one's feed is very much dependent on how aggressively one curates it”

“you can limit who can reply to posts (to followers, people who follow you, people you've mentioned, or only to yourself)”