[HN Gopher] Bluesky makes web view public, login no longer requi... ___________________________________________________________________ Bluesky makes web view public, login no longer required to read posts 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! | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-22 23:00 UTC)