Technology

What annoys me is that people are buying the idea that BlueSky is federated.

Not only is it not federated, the very architecture they designed means that it's probably not federateable, at least not by normal users.

The way they designed it, a relay is required to collect and forward every single BlueSky post. That means, as the service grows, it becomes more and more impossible for anybody but a company to run a relay. Someone did some calculations back in November when it was a significantly smaller network, and they calculated that at a minimum it costs a few hundred dollars, possibly as much as 1000 bucks a month just to handle the disk storage needs for a relay on a leased server. The more the network grows, the more those costs skyrocket.

What good does it do to have a network that theoretically can be federated, but practically costs so much to run a single node that nobody except a for-profit company can manage it?

another trash platform its just matter of a time, use mastodon and fediverse to don't migrate again in few years

Try hosting your own instance and sorting through the content of 30m people for the one post you want. lol

Whenever I see how they keep getting brought up, I'm always reminded of that Dilbert ep about how people just fall for blue logos that are easy on the eyes. They don't even have to know what it is... just the fact that the stupid logo is blue is enough. lol

Mastodon has around 1 million active users³ Bluesky has around 3.5 million active users²

Bluesky doesn't have a decent way to see active user count, but it is likely higher than 3 million

Mastodon retains 10%, Bluesky retains 10% also, but I can't confirm it

Edit: Using unique likes, it shows about 2 million active users on each day¹

Source:

Bsky Analytics¹ • Bsky Stats² • Mastodon Analytics³

I looked at the terms of service and noticed that they bind you into arbitration, limit your terms to $100, mandate you to travel to Delaware for dispute, and force you into mass arbitration if your dispute is similar to others.

Pass

Nice. Glad to see people leaving xitter en mass.

Another corporate social media platform, what could go wrong?

Love an app that defaults me to people I actually follow and doesn't bombard me with endless reams of ads or engagement bait.

We'll see how long that lasts. But for now, its a blast from the past to be on a social media app I don't hate.