alt Hacker NewsI had such high hopes for blue sky. The team seems highly un-problematic. Every time I go on there it's just happy stories and people communicating.
But still almost nobody uses it. And now worst of all, people are saying it doesn't "count" as real federation.
It seems like we're letting perfect be the enemy of good. But what do I know
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oytis • today at 5:08 PM
Facebook started as people communicating too.
I just don't understand why do you need to create a new incompatible protocol when ActivityPub exists - unless enshittification is in the roadmap. Even less I understand why prefer it over e.g. Mastodon from the user's perspective
Bluesky seems to be pre-Musk Twitter 2.0. Its content is basically the same (art + "look at the bad thing the Republicans are doing - the Democrats will solve this"). Its moderation policies are basically the same (post anything too different from what's there = ban. Centralised moderation). Its user base, although smaller, draws from roughly the same pool. And Jack Dorsey made it. And it even has a blue logo. It's clear he just wanted to create Twitter a second time and succeeded at that.