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I'm increasingly concerned that Bluesky has missed its moment. It got a ton of hype when it started rolling out invites, but that died down pretty quickly. Now it's been a couple months and they're still not open.

Events like this would be a perfect opportunity to grab users from Twitter. But they're not ready.

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Sounds like Google+ in a way, they limited it to invite only for a long time which caused a lot of the second wave users to get fed up, only for the low interest on actually opening it up causing Google to feel the need to ram it down everyone's throat, and both periods contributed to its negative perception.

For the longest time I thought Bluesky was just another euphemism for Twitter, like this site is sometimes called Orange Site. I don't see it becoming the next Twitter; if anything Mastadon has the best chance except I always misspell it.

Don't forget about Nostr, which has seen an absolutely incredible amount of development over the last 6 months.

Damus (ios) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/damus/id1628663131

Amethyst (android) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitorpampl...

Satellite (web) - https://satellite.earth

Primal (web) - https://primal.net

Iris (web) - https://iris.to

Snort (web) - https://snort.social

Coracle (web) - https://app.coracle.social

All interoperable. All open source.

I've used Nostr a handful of times and am impressed with how responsive the network appears to be. But the problem I have with it is that the default feed (or whatever its called) is chock full of crypto nonsense. Terrible first impression.

I made a test post and was immediately pinged by two crypto bots. Yeah no thanks.

That's a fair point, and most of the people on nostr are aware of the need to diversify. In fact, as of last week you can create Reddit-like sub-communities on nostr with rules like "no crypto content" which should help a lot.

Snowden jumped on today https://satellite.earth/@Snowden@Nostr-Check.com

Yeah I signed up for the wait list, but it's been months, and...nada. Seems like if they're that bogged down, it's got some real problems.

The site seems like its creaking under the strain of everyone checking it right now.

Where is the bluesky site? I tried to find it recently and ended up on the app store where I saw that I needed an invite to join, and then I closed it and never came back.

It's still invite only, unfortunately.

https://bsky.app/

Would be a pity if so, such a promising technology where you finally have a chance to own your content and connections

Bluesky is great in comparison. Not sure it's going to ever be as big as Twitter, but it's a great alternative to Mastodon

I concur. For me the lack of an algorithm is a bug, not a feature, and the way bluesky lets you pick your own algorithms (via feeds) is an amazing improvement.

I am active on both Mastodon and BlueSky, but I'm finding my self way more on BlueSky lately.

So you're just posting to say you got an invite.

Didn't help that Jack jumped ship back to Twitter

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