On the last HN thread about Nostr I've mentioned Bluesky, and talked about its qualities, including the separation of various duties, like the feed, moderation, storage, etc. into different entities that can be pluggable.

Since that I got an invite (thank you, Sam!) and I'm even more bullish now (though I'm not much of a social media poster myself).

Compared to Nostr it seems like there's a first-party "base" app that most people can use, which has UX very similar to Twitter, with the assumption that people will be able to make their pick of app/moderation/feed/... later based on merit, not lock-in.

It seems like in the recent days/weeks a lot of non-technical various public figures have onboarded Bluesky, thanks to this ease of getting started. Folks that I wouldn't expect there for a while yet.

To any Nostr users - how's that developing there? Based on my cursory look onboarding looks quite a bit more daunting.

Anyway, the Twitter blue checkmark seems to be a blessing for decentralized social networks.

EDIT: Since I already got an email about it 5 mins after writing this - No, I don't have any invite codes, sorry.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692378