"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

Oh fediverse are you getting worse? Even this cat is not enjoying the experience. So sad that I have to scroll several pages on the Mastodon timeline just to get to couple of "real" posts

Bluesky
✅ [discover timeline] less links, actual posts from users and many discussions. Maybe better moderation?

Mastodon
❌ [live feed timeline] filled with so many links to news, politics before seeing actual content

#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub #bluesky #atproto #feedback #caturday #cat

An update on and description of #BlueSky distributed capabilities, including a long segment on distributed labeling and moderation, and how the way #Mastodon / #Fediverse handles it promotes contention on this platform.

I always say, there’s a lack of focus on technology serving users here, with instances being the primary focus, and that’s a shame.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/27/why-bluesky-remains-the-most-interesting-experiment-in-social-media-by-far/

Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far

These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons. You shouldn’t trust giant centralized companies that have collected a ridiculous amount of data on you. There are few re…

^Techdirt

Plugins for fediverse platforms.

Where is this up to? Is anyone thinking along these lines?

I've seen @db0 espouse such (eg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/8581651) (sorry for the tag if annoying).

I've certainly thought of it myself ... because it's a pretty obvious idea for an ecosystem aiming for richness and sustainability.

Seems a perfect fit for reusable moderation tooling too, rather than each new platforms having that trouble.

This is essentially #bluesky 's idea it seems.

@fediverse
#fediverse