Twitter’s decentralized offshoot Bluesky now has 2 million users

Bluesky is technically decentralized, since it’s built on top of the AT Protocol, but users who sign up for Bluesky (which is still invite-only) still must sign up via the company’s main bsky.social network.

so... not decentralized as of now?

Yup. I moved to Mastodon because of it, I don't trust BlueSky.
I don't trust a platform that is funded by the guy who gladly sold the previous one to the moron who's now in charge. And I don't trust their claims because as of now decentralized it isn't. It's just not. And there is no real reason for them to do so. So eventually they may just walk back their claims and 99% of the user base won't care about this.
Plus, this website is going to need to make money eventually. But as of yet, they have no concrete monetization plan, which is basically the norm in nowadays with these kinds of projects. We grow fast, we make money later. How is that going to happen? Is it going to be filled with ads? Is it going to basically make the same mistakes as before? We don't know.
Plus again, this is originally made and funded by the guy who made Twitter. And let's not pretend that Twitter wasn't already a dumpster fire before the Muskrat came in. It was. Twitter sucked way before this and, personally, I left it waaaay before this guy came in.
I'm done, personally. I'm done with all of this. If a company is public, I don't even care about their product anymore. Investors are going to ruin it. Doesn't apply here, good. If a social media platform is not decentralized, not open source, I don't want to have anything to do with it anymore. So, no Bluesky I'm done with all of that.
I am on Mastodon and I'm happy with my choice. And that's it for me. I'm not trying anything else. I'm happy on there. It's not filled with ads. I don't have to worry about investors fucking ruining it eventually. And I don't have to worry about it becoming a shithole filled algorithmically boosted Neo-Nazis because anger drives engagement and engagement makes money.
A while back, I was still hesitant. Then I read this article which basically sold me on it.
it's just a lie by a corperation. don't trust it
BSky is the media's favourite, so of course they're doing the PR campaign.
@throwslemy @noodlejetski The registry still is centralized, but the users already are distributed across multiple servers that talk to each other using that protocol.
- That just sounds like standard scaling. No big Plattform is running on one server with one instance
- Interesting. I don't fully understand the mechanics behind it but it certainly sounds a bit different then the usual
In essence, no
@throwslemy @noodlejetski Some more background concerning the decentralization:
github.com/bluesky-social/atpr…

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Wait, I thought the decentralized version of Twitter was Mastodon

It is. BlueSky or for short BS (ha!) just took the open standard and closed it again!

I keep reading about bluesky on here, and here on bluesky. But calling it decentralised is wrong.

Seriously why is Bluesky not open for everyone? Do they have issues with scaling?

@sculd @throwslemy They are a really small company. So their resources are limited. For example until they started the internal decentralization, they had got a single Postgres database for everything.

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Bluesky, a decentralized social media app alternative to X (formerly Twitter), has announced that it has now crossed 2 million users — doing so just two months after crossing 1 million users.

The company is also finally about to add a public web interface, which might help make it a more attractive destination for journalists and other users.

One big hurdle for Bluesky to reach a bigger audience is that people can’t view links to posts without being signed in, so the upcoming public web interface should finally help alleviate that problem.

The public interface is slated for launch “around the end of this month,” according to the company’s blog post.

A federated network would allow users to post through various providers instead of a large central platform like most big social media companies.

Right now, Mastodon is the most prominent decentralized Twitter-like platform that already openly supports multiple providers and has attracted a lot of journalists and professionals.

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