Lol I got an invite to #Bluesky from a friend and signed up. It's quieter than the fediverse and lots of low number of posts on accounts so I'd say many folks have already skipped off elsewhere, probably to Threads. Finding old Twitter friends is pretty bad now that most tools have to scrape thanks to no API access any longer.
There's a few of us still promoting the fediverse. It's funny to have folks objecting to a federated network when they've signed up to a protocol that's meant to eventually federate. It does show how Twitter-brained many of us were and often still are, and even the small influx of folk who've arrived since the X rebranding are basically there begrudgingly and mourning the loss of the birdsite. Even that small influx seems to have taxed their servers as myself and other newbies ask why the app seems sluggish.
For all the hype it's quite a shock to discover it's a graveyard. Interestingly, and quite similar to the fediverse, it has some big problems with anti-black racism and poor moderation tools, while white queers and trans folk seems to be doing ok and are mostly the kind of folk I'm seeing the algorithm push at me.
The neo-Nazi Weev joined the other day and a user backlash quickly saw him booted, so I think there's a good chance that Bluesky folk could be encouraged back here as the platform wanes rather than Threads which seems to be following Facebook's awful policies of algorithmic moderation which leaves individual comments containing slurs and harassment up but takes down queer and progressive accounts that are reported by the bigot brigades.
I finally have a custom #iosdev feed on #bluesky now, it only took 7 weeks of work 😅 Because of course I had to write everything (almost) from scratch in #Ruby :P
Heh finally found a really good rss to #bluesky piece of code.. I was losing my head into making "embeds" work over there with my own code, I'll use this instead!
And on top it's already Dockerized! #docker#rss
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How many domains do you have to sell to return an eight million USD seed investment? VCs aim for 10x? So 80 millions USD. Namecheap pays affiliates 20%. Most domains cost around $10 per year. That's $2 per sale. 40 million domains to satisfy venture investments.
Stop. Bluesky is a public benefit corporation. Their goal isn't only to make their investors rich. Maybe not even pay back the money. The question should be: How many domains do you have to sell to run a social network? Is $2 per user per year enough? Fediverse instances seem to aim at at least $1 per month per user. Six times as much. And that's just for running an instance, not for developing a protocol plus running the main instance.
But it is a start. And it doesn't involve ads. That's good. And probably more reliable than servers that run on personal motivation of the admins alone.
Let me tell you one thing, it's much much much much faster than the original Bluesky app on #android (utter sluggish and slow on my FP4, almost unusable)
I don't have the mental bandwidth to write a PHP library for posting to #bluesky. I've found one project which is in alpha that I could use, but it seems like an overkill for what I want. I just want to be able to crosspost easily between my blog, mastodon and #bluesky.