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Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by guraf on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:53AM (#36627310)
> I currently have a list of fourteen people waiting for a code.

That tends to happen when there's an exclusive club, people want to peak in. It is, in no way, an indication of the quality of the platform.

> the waves of repugnant users or miserably overbaked features.

That tends to happen when there's hardly any users at all. The "repugnant" or "normals" will flock in all the same, if the platform ever takes off.

> the utter lack of ads is delightful.

That tends to happen in all pre-revenue startups. Twitter was ads-free for years.

Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by jpwerty on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:01AM (#36627371)
Thanks for the cynicism but the quality of the platform is that I can currently, today, communicate with strangers and friends in good faith without being pelted by noxious crap or adtech gone asymptotic.

Maybe it'll all be the usual grim broken carnival barking shit when you have an account too, but for right now we're all twirling in a teacup here.

Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by mrguyorama on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:00PM (#36633700)
The noxious crap and adtech were all strapped on to Twitter by Jack, why would that not happen again?
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by dkh on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:59AM (#36627353)
They intend to not move to ads. This domain name feature was described specifically by bluesky as the first attempt at bringing in revenue from other means
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by the_gipsy on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:11AM (#36628276)
So their business model is... exactly like twitter blue?
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by dkh on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:28AM (#36629256)
I mean, if by "exactly like twitter blue" you mean "charging people money for things" then sure. But you're generalizing beyond the point where the comparison is useful or a pejorative
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by dkh on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:37AM (#36629320)
> It is, in no way, an indication of the quality of the platform.

No, but it is a reason why the quality of the current users has been allowed to be quite high so far.

> The "repugnant" or "normals" will flock in all the same, if the platform ever takes off.

They will try, but by then the moderation systems, feed/algo defaults, various content policies, etc. will have hopefully been ironed out, ideally negating many/most of the negatives of letting them all in without those things. This is being very heavily worked on right now, transparently and with input from the current users, and is a big reason to not yet open the floodgates.

Bsky has already had its first few Nazis get ahold of an invite code and show up and start doing their thing. The first time it happened, it took a while for everyone to figure out how to handle it and what the policies were and much of the community was irate. After that, they knew how to handle it and would do so before there was time for these users to wreak much havoc.

It's inevitable that eventually the floodgates will open and weirdos will show up. But that's not what really matters. What matters is whether or not they actually are successful at bothering everyone else. Launching with things in place to negate that is, for many people, the whole ballgame.

Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by Karsteski on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:03AM (#36629510)
What is the thing that Nazis do?
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by jtr1 on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:23AM (#36630626)
Advocate for racial hierarchies, spread hateful messages about various minorities, promote subjugation for women and violence as purification for men. The usually nazi shit, although the ones with extra brain cells try to be coy about it.
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by Karsteski on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:47AM (#36630898)
Fair enough. The reason I asked is because it seems people throw that word around very loosely now
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by jtr1 on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:21PM (#36668576)
Well to be fair, nazism and nazi-adjacent ideas have had a renaissance as of late.
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern... by RobKohr on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:54AM (#36644425)
Nazi (n) - a label used for anyone you don't like and would like permission to punch because you disagree with them, and is used unironically as a synonym for fascism, even though the word's use is to promote the silencing of opposing views, even with violence, just like fascism does.

Historical definition: a German political party that led Germany to destruction and performed mass genocide