Bluesky opens to the public today. Gift link to Washington Post article. I've been wondering why upgrades have been minimal for a while. This is what the team has been working toward. Bluesky has some things Twitter doesn't - mainly custom feeds - and doesn't...
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is like the end of Donald Trump, much expected and frequently predicted, but never happens. Today Elon Musk is messing with direct messages, which may remove one of the last.
We may have reached the end of Twitter. Yesterday came a bunch of maladies, which I won’t list because my interest is not in deciphering what might be the disturbances.
The developers of Bluesky believe that they are developing a protocol. The users want it to be a Twitter substitute, with Twitter’s ease of use but no Nazis or other harassers. This is a problem. The developers repeat that they are developing a protocol. But...
Since joining Bluesky, I’ve learned more about developers (coders, programmers, tech bros, whatever they're calling themselves these days) than I ever imagined. Let me make clear, up front, what I.
After a two-week orgy, Bluesky is settling down to the problems of being a social medium. Not solving those problems yet, but defining a problem is the first step to.