"Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so #Bluesky moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines."

That's not something you read every day.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

^{Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)}

Abso-fuckin-lutely! Idk how they're calling this "decentralized". Then only thing that's decentralized is your profile info and follow relationships...🤦‍♂️

#BlueSky #SocialMedia #Decentralized

Matthew Exon has written

"what bothers me about Bluesky. There is implicitly a censorship regime being implemented here, and it must necessarily be centralised. There must be a single set of decisions affecting everyone in the world. Those decisions are being made by an American company bound by American laws, which in turn are decided by the American people participating in American democracy."

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https://fedi.exon.name/2024/02/11/censorship-on-bluesky/

#Bluesky vs #Fediverse
#censorship

"Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

"Mastodon and Bluesky are still standing."

#Post #Twitter #Mastodon #Bluesky #aocialmedia

Learnings: the post, including image, turned up at most of the intended services. That includes #Akkoma, #Mastodon, #Misskey, #Sharkey, #Hubzilla, #Tumblr and #BlueSky, all within minutes from posting it.

It is notable that it didn't show up, at all, on #Pixelfed.

People are actually on BlueSky

There's now a decent measurement of #bluesky user numbers (https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html) ...

They've got about 1.6M MAUs ...
& 0.8M Weekly unique users & 0.340M Daily.

That's not nothing!

Roughly double mastodon and 60% more than the whole fediverse (by MAUs, see fedidb.org).

Bluesky is quite "international" with large Japanese and Brazilian popltns, and there's real attrition happening IMO.

Still, let the protocol wars begin I suppose?

@fediverse