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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky is one of the more promising micro-blogging platforms that could provide an alternative to Elon Musk’s X.
The company began as a project inside of Twitter that sought to build a decentralized infrastructure called the AT Protocol for social networking.
“What decentralization gets you is the ability to try multiple things in parallel, and so you’re not bottlenecking change on one organization,” Bluesky CEO Jay Graber told TechCrunch.
This all sounds great, but of course, the question will inevitably arise: what if a bad actor creates a moderation service or a server that has tangibly harmful consequences?
This is more of a hands-off approach, which also relies on users to take advantage of Bluesky’s customizable moderation tools to determine what online safety means to them.
Graber couldn’t have possibly anticipated that plot twist, but a year before the acquisition, she just so happened to spin Bluesky out from Twitter and into its own public benefit corporation.
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Did my typical, set up an account to squat on my username so no one else gets it then signed back out to likely never sign in again…
Uuuh, no thanks.
SMS verification?
Eeeeh… :-/
Whoa man, I totally forgot about that functionality. I looked it up to see if it was still supported but seems that they retired it in April 2020, with the exception of a few countries. Kind of crazy they kept it going that long given how obviously unsecure SMS is (which is the main reason Twitter gave at the time for why they were retiring it).
Yes. It’s the second step in the sign-up process. And you can’t see anything without signing up.
According to Similarweb the number of visitors has been going down recently, which might be part of the reason for Bluesky opening up to public sign-ups.
But I also posted my invite codes to a bunch of Discord servers a while ago and still nobody joined, so I question how much of an impact this will actually have.
I wasn’t interested enough to seek out an invite but now that’s its open I’ll register an promptly forget to ever check again. Plus someone else already took the username “can”. Who else would want that? lol
