Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

Re:Posts, profiles, and user search are now available withou... by brundolf on Friday December 22, 2023 @06:49PM (#38740113)

It doesn't complicate the onboarding process though, because there's an official client and a default algo. That's Bluesky's whole thing: sensible defaults and easy onboarding, so it can be "just twitter" if you want it to be. But the open protocol and ecosystem that give you more options if/when you want them, and put pressure on the official ones to stay good

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Re:Posts, profiles, and user search are now available withou... by ziml77 on Friday December 22, 2023 @10:19PM (#38741327)

That's really the key. Most people don't need to care. Bluesky is nice and easy for their needs. They just use the bsky.app website and the official Bluesky phone app.

This is in contrast to Mastodon where people were told to pick an instance and not really guided to any one as the primary one (because Mastodon devs/users don't want there to be a thought that there even is a "primary" instance).

People here on HN can claim picking an instance isn't a big deal all they want, but I can say with confidence it is. I'm in various furry artist Discord servers where people expressed their distaste for having to deal with the multiple instances.

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Re:Posts, profiles, and user search are now available withou... by jjfoooo4 on Saturday December 23, 2023 @05:44PM (#38749039)

The thread is discussing Blue Sky getting critical mass (ie casual users), my claim is that for this the algo and client choices are neutral to mildly negative value.

Take that away you’re really back to “just Twitter” with fewer features and less content.

I agree that algo and client choice would be a positive for a mature site like Twitter, but it’s unclear how a site with this strategy will get enough traction for the choices to be useful

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