Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public::undefined
The guy who started Bluesky was the same Twitter co-founder who push for Twitter to sell out. Thanks but no thanks. I’ll stick with Mastodon. It’s getting real comfy in there now.
I’m really happy with Mastodon. I don’t plan on going on bluesky.
What is X?
I feel like that’s a conversation you should have had with your parents by now.
“When a failing social media platform and a billionaire narcissist love each other very much…”
We’re going to send X to a farm upstate.
Really soft core porn. You need to get into the triple Xs to get to the good stuff.
I’m glad we can rely on @Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world for solid words of advice on this subject.
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X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
The one who’s gonna give it to ya.
But do they deliver to ya?
It’s weird that this post called it by the short name. The full name, as you typically see in articles, is “X (formerly Twitter)”.
It’s kinda like “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince”. A few places tried to call him “The Artist”, but no one ever knew what that meant.
“The formerly successful website known as Twitter”
A letter in the alphabet.
no thanks 👍
How can a website be trendy if nobody could use it until now?
You could use it, but only by invitation.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Underneath, however, the company is building what Graber calls “an open, decentralized protocol” — a software system that allows developers and users to create their own versions of the social network, with their own rules and algorithms.
Savvy social media users begged one another for “invite codes” to join the fledgling network, whose quirky first adopters gave it a vibe that some likened to the early days of Twitter.
But with fewer than a dozen employees at the time, Graber put off a public launch, fearing that it would force the company to spend all its resources on maintaining and moderating the Bluesky network rather than building out the underlying “decentralized” system.
Rose Wang, who oversees operations and strategy for Bluesky, said its goal is to combine the ease of use and shared experience of closed platforms like X and Threads with the user choice and openness of systems like Mastodon’s.
Mike Masnick, editor of the blog Techdirt and a longtime tech analyst, has followed Bluesky’s progress from the start, after a paper he wrote helped to inspire Dorsey to create the project.
Amy Zhang, a professor at University of Washington’s Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, has been researching Bluesky to study how users respond when given options to control their feeds and moderation systems.
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Nah
I got an invite to join last year and signed up to test it out.
Felt like there was a lot less people and a lot less content on it than Mastadon.
Unless the users/content now really starts to take off, there’s not enough on there to make it interesting.
Every new social media site will start out like that, whether the platform itself is amazing or another corporate shithole.
Put another way, the hype mechanism of “invite-only” stopped bringing enough hype to justify it.
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