It’s a potentially big moment for Bluesky.

Bluesky posts are finally open to the public::Bluesky remains an invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative, but now, you don’t need to be logged in to be able to see posts on the platform. The app has a new logo, too.

  • PatchEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    I only got on Bluesky a couple of months ago after a long wait, and honestly I don’t think I’ve been on there once since setting up the account. A trickle of my Twitter contacts seemed to move over there in the early days but the trickle dried up and it doesn’t look like many people are on there.

    I hope it still finds a niche for itself, but the ridiculous invite rationing thing really does seem to have killed the momentum for them.

    I’ve also lost interest in Mastodon, although again I’m willing to give it another go if it continues to grow. Mostly I’ve just found that I don’t really need to replace Twitter in my life; I’m just fine without it…

    • swansinflight@no.lastname.nzEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I’ve noted a lot of folks finding the same. Once you remove the addicting algorithm feeding you, you realise it gets boring once you’ve checked on it for a few minutes. Not that having a fedi account is a bad thing, if orgs and govt dished out updates via a fedi account (on their own server) I’d get behind that. I hate having to log into fb or wherever to find out info that should be on a website; a fediverse account would be a nice compromise IMO.

      • PatchEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        The thing that made Twitter a legitimately interesting platform to be on was really the way it enabled direct communication with “big” names. Celebrities if that’s your thing, but for me it was more journalists, commentators and politicians (being the circle my interests move in).

        There was nowhere else like it for having a national TV journalist post something, replying to them, and them having a conversation back with you on simple equal footing. Similarly, I had several “big names” follow me or follow people who follow me, who’d occasionally see my posts and comment or react; not something that could happen without it.

        If Bluesky or Mastodon had the same wide traction and the same culture of communication maybe it’d capture my interest again.

        The reason why I’ve found Lemmy so much more appealing is because fundamentally Reddit didn’t rely on that sort of culture at all. The Reddit culture is one that transfers much more easily to a smaller community like Lemmy, and it scratches that itch for me just fine.