Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative, is getting its first third-party app for both iOS and Android users: a new app called Graysky. Though
Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative, is getting its first third-party app for both iOS and Android users: a new app called Graysky.
And the picture they used is not just white background, but the icons and edit text are blue and text is black. Where is the grey? I call false advertisement.
From the article 'Rather, explains Newman, Bluesky was appealing because it’s simply a better Twitter.'
Can someone explain this to me? The article does not. It all seems like garbage to me, vanilla swirl maybe instead of straight vanilla, but still tastes like crap. This release is specifically not decentralized.
Dorsey is a shitbag, always has been, why is this better?
At least for normal non-tech oriented people it is a Twitter without Elon Musk. Which I suppose is an improvement despite it still being Jack Dorsey.
I think it will be important to see how it is potentially monetized. If they can find some way to stay alive without going down the enshitification rabbit hole with ads and prioritized posts with paid subscriptions like Twitter then that would also be an improvement in my opinion.
I've been against bluesky since I heard they're invite only. It just won't work, maybe future proves me wrong (as it usually does) but I just cannot physically believe in it.
There's way better and bigger alternatives already (Mastodon, hello?). Mastodon's federated as well. Everything I've known so far that was invite only really didn't go far.
But I don't know anything else about bluesky other than it's a Twitter alternative and invite-only currently, so tell me if I'm wrong? (Obligatory :3)
Bsky.social isn't federated yet, but they do have a federation sandbox for developers. I don't think they want to put federation into the production server just yet.
IIRC there's also servers waiting for federation, I've heard there's a Russian Atproto server.
software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written or designed.
It appears that there will be no ads and the only monetization is for advanced features. Assuming that actually is true that is a respectable way to monetize something.