Bluesky gets nearly 800K new users in first day to the public, despite outages \ stacker news ~tech

Bluesky gets nearly 800K new users in first day to the public, despite outages techcrunch.com/2024/02/07/despite-outages-bluesky-gets-nearly-800k-new-users-in-its-first-day-open-to-the-public

6874 sats \ 12 comments \ @hasherstacker 7 Feb tech

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1269 sats \ 2 replies \ @freetx 7 Feb

please provide your phone number to activate your account

their "AT protocol" specifies that its all about censorship. its literally the woke crowd who ran away from twitter now setting up another safe space.

27 sats \ 1 reply \ @0313029d5d 7 Feb

Letting users moderate internet forums isn't a new thing and it isn't "censorship". If you want a shitty, anything-goes chatroom, go to 4chan.

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @arrivederci 8 Feb

Moderation doesn't however require identity exposure, which is what they're doing by requiring a phone number.

138 sats \ 0 replies \ @beorange 7 Feb

I don't see the appeal.

Nostr is the way. Even if Nostr is not a possibility for some reason, the activity pub network (also known as the fediverse) is a better ecosystem.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @UCantDoThatDotRugged 7 Feb

Gooooooodbye

Blue Sky

Goodbye

Blu u u Sky

Goodbye

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0313029d5d 7 Feb

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @hasherstacker OP 8 Feb

Bluesky added a million new users in the last day since removing the requirement for invites.

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kkv3clm3su2h

Nostr is the way. There's no second best!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JesseJames 8 Feb

How is this different than the rest of the bunch, still requires an email and phone number. I thought we went through this already... The first wave is a curiosity factor nothing else, I will stick with nostr until something else comes around that is worth my time.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Monotone 8 Feb

Well here we go, everyone is trying to reinvent the wheel, Twitter has already been invented. 😅 I look at all this buzz around Bluesky and I think some things are unique in their own right. Bitcoin isn't just another cryptocurrency, it's a revolution in the financial world. It's the same with Twitter - not just a social network, but a former platform for free speech. Trying to create a "new bitcoin" or "new Twitter" without understanding their uniqueness is like trying to reinvent the wheel twice. Let's better focus on improving what we already have instead of chasing an unattainable "ideal". 🚀