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- No pay-for-attention model.

- Third party clients available.

- Blocklists and other more sophisticated custom moderation available.

- Threads and profiles accessible to non-logged-in people (note that you can read the linked post and its replies without being logged in; on Twitter you at minimum couldn't see the replies, and depending on the account/phase of moon might just get an error for the actual post.)

- Less deranged leadership (at least now that Dorsey has flounced off).

- Blocking works.

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What's Bluesky monetization strategy? Are they net positive financially?

I ask because if they are operating on red, chances are they might start doing some of the things Twitter currently does.

They've started charging for an easy verified domain thingy (https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan - Doing it yourself involves messing with DNS records), and I _think_ they said they'd charge for longer/higher quality video uploads (video currently limited to 60s) and profile customisation stuff. They've claimed they won't do targeted ads; we'll see how long that lasts.

While this seems like a reasonable way to start monetising, I would add that the domain verification is very straightforward for anyone who's touched nameservers before. As an aside, their use of domains seems like a relatively clean way to inherit existing identity verification, particularly for organisations.

> I would add that the domain verification is very straightforward for anyone who's touched nameservers before.

This kind of feels like a bit of an example of this: https://xkcd.com/2501/ :)

Perhaps one in a thousand people on earth have ever even _heard_ of a nameserver. I'd agree that if you've done anything with one before, the domain verification is fairly trivial, but most people have not.

Right, I really just meant the last sentence in your comment but that could have been phrased more clearly. I definitely support having the easier option!

I'm not sure you're aware of what's happening on Twitter, but for starters it's called X now for some reason, crazy I know.

Everyone knows. That isn't remotely related to my question though.

For now.

I was a private alpha tester "when it was cool" but I get the feel they're taking the discord approach of things.

I predict that in a year you will soon be charged for uploading videos and or something of the likes.

Last week I deleted my account. Now proud to be 99.8% (HN, LinkedIn) social network free.

I am personally curious into what Linked will devolve eventually.

Is linkedin not already in a devolved state?

It's hard to imagine it being more off-putting than it already is.

The only useful part is the Rolodex of past co-workers and bosses to message when you’re looking for a job or looking for someone to hire. As long as they don’t ruin that, it can’t get worse than it already is, because nothing else about it matters.

Yeah, their plans for monetisation seem to be along those lines, vs Twitter's pay-for-attention thing.

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