this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
279 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

68348 readers
6255 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's to be expected. What remains to be seen is how many of them will stick around after the initial surge.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Im more curious how many are bots made to look like its booming with traffic

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk. After they dropped invite codes, they started requiring phone numbers for sign up.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (3 children)

oh nice. If this trend continues, they will be by 4 million tommorrow and 20 million next week and by summer every human on earth will have an account.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

And then onward to the extraterrestrial market!

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, no thanks. I'm good with Lemmy and Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same - I was mildly curious to be honest, but not nearly enough to give them my phone number.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I had never even heard of bluesky before and also not really interested. Looks like another Twitter replacement, but I never really got into twitter to start with.

I saw the title and I was like "1987 blue sky studios is open to the public? The hell does that mean?"

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Goodbye Bluesky

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

whoever made that graph needs to learn how to properly space their horizontal axis labels

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How quickly will it become a serious contender against Twitter?

I'll stick with lemmy, but I'd love to bathe in some schadenfreude at musks expense.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Engagement :

"Hello world!"
"Hi"
"Welcome"
"Hi"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That's the beauty of it already being a thriving forum before opening up to the public, there's a lot of ongoing content beyond people logging on and saying hi for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What is bluesky? Basically a twitter clone that was spun off as it's own thing by the twitter team that was working on federation when Musk took over. It's pretty good if you liked the pre-Musk twitter vibe or a slightly smaller scale and leftier version of it.

https://bsky.app/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah yes another commercial social media platform taking the first steps in the enshitification process. We've seen this all before in the early days of other platforms before the decay sets in.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They have more posts than lemmy has active users. Nice

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As if they didn't learned their lessor with Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious what lesson learned from twitter easily also applies to bluesky, as that's genuinely not very clear to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That going into corporate, VC funded, centralization focused and privately controlled social network is not good long-term idea.

Myself I have nothing against profit itself, but the relationship of how single entity can manage network.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But they're (allegedly soon) federated and say they want to give control of the protocol over to an independent standards body. So like, half of the stuff you're saying might not even really apply here.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand the categories' purpose here. Can't someone be all three? Or are they presented as a hierarchy, like "likers" have liked but not followed or posted, "followers" have followed someone but not posted, while "posters" have posted?

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›