Everyone should be aware that all posts, likes, comments, blocks and follows are public on bluesky, even more so than Twitter. There is no privacy.
DMs are also not E2EE, and thus visible to Bluesky.
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I think it will end up failing similar to the other Twitter alternatives (e.g. Threads, Mastodon, Pleroma, Nostr, Misskey, Truth Social, Gab) or any of the many Reddit alternatives (e.g. Lemmy, Kbin, Aether, Voat, Poast) or any of the Facebook alternatives (even Google+ failed!)ā¦
The reason for that (a) people are generally lazy and donāt want to switch if they donāt have to, (b) most people remain unconvinced when the competing product isnāt really that much different or better, and (c) the network effect means that even those that are early adopters of a new platform will get tired if most of the action happens elsewhere.
Finally, 50 million Ned Flanders all being REALLY nice to each other (or else!) on Bluesky will never break out or make culture. When it comes to internet content people choose the junk food ā the insults, the hate, the drama ā every time. And X (the everything site), Tiktok, and Instagram will still have a monopoly on ācan you believe theyāre saying this???ā type stuff that actually breaks through and grabs eyeballs.
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I think this is an expectation issueā¦
Some of the alternatives you are calling a failure, are active and have millions of users.
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Just likeā¦Twitter?? Main page in Twitter is a āFor youā feed based on algorithm and a āFollowingā feed with the posts from people you follow in chronological order.
Edit: correction: Twitter actually shows what you want to read. All of it. Bluesky is curating even your chronological-order feed with heavy censorship.
[citation needed]
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Thatās why I see Elon Muskās and his trollsā tweets though I have no interest or like them.
Do we at least agree that something like Bluesky will always be more secure than something like Mastodon?
No? Can you elaborate?
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I apologize for the misunderstanding. To clarify, my original post was actually about how funding can impact the security of a platform.
Another nice blog post about Bluesky:
https://canolcer.com/post/thoughts-on-bluesky/
TL:DR
It is way better than Twitter, but can easily go downhill like Twitter did.
No safeguards for the users.
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I donāt knowā¦ there wasnāt as much excitement for all of those, but this is a pretty subjective feeling. Threads grew way higher, but just because of exposure from Facebook.
Thereās been around 1M users per day joining in the past week. Now nearly at 21M
20 million users, while significant, is also well behind Threads (275 million) and X (500 million)
My hope is that Bluesky steal some of the power of platforms like X have.
Indeed. You canāt even private your account if some crowd starts targeting you ā and letās be honest, itās going to happen sooner or later. Best you can do is deactivate your account and hope for the best. And thatās not to mention other privacy problems the platform which canāt be addressed due to the nature of platform.
Iāll say this though, itās the best twitter alternative yet with its curation and all; perhaps itāll have its year or two of hayday before it goes downhill like every other platform ever.
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As you can see from the post above Bsky has really nice moderation settings (and thereās more).
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These are post interaction settings, not sure how theyāre relevant to the ability of not being able to lock my account.
Twitter has these too, not my point
You canāt even block people on X anymore. You can merely just hide them - meaning they will still see your posts.
Honestly after the Twitter Files scandal my biggest wishlist feature with any new social media platform is that it has robust censorship protection.
This is where self-hosting decentralisation often fails (see Mastodonās echo chamber networks who donāt federate with each other) and where blockchain-based decentralisation is a much better fit.
For one see the endless complaints about federated identity on Mastodon, this sort of thing basically requires a blockchain in order to do it trustlessly whilst decentralised.
Having all public posts on an immutable ledger also means that censorship on desktop-based clients is much more difficult, as itāll always be possible to modify the client to view all messages. This sort of platform can then also have a separate E2EE private messaging layer (e.g. utilising Matrix), whereas Bluesky currently only has unencrypted DMs and moderation in them too.
Bluesky currently brings little new to the table and itās tech stack has too many weak points for censorship so I doubt itāll topple X any time soon.
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bluesky is the same
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I agree. What about Nostr?
Nostr (acronym for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol for decentralized message transmission, with the intention to be able to resist internet censorship[2] while maintaining session integrity.