This was always bait to keep people using corporate social media instead of decentralizing. I am not sorry for the users one bit.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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I don't see how even the way Twitter does it is any worse than not having such system at all.
I've seen this movie before.
idk man I haven't seen anyone complaining about it on Bluesky
This is a net positive, nice to have a social media where verification checks are...actually used for verifying the person behind an account
But isn’t the domain already doing that?
If they are, and there isn't anything to display it, how are we to know what's been vetted and what's slipped through the cracks? Especially on a new account?
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I do not see anything to be angry or disappointed about?
Verification badge was good, the dumb thing Twitter did was throw it away by letting anyone pay for it.
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How does bluesky make money?
Right now, venture capital investments - same as all tech starts out.
How it'll monetize to become self-sufficient remains to be seen.
I just saw a group is going to start doing custom feeds with ads inserted. I blocked the account and every single sucker who comes in to say congrats and how excited they are about it. Fuck the lot of them. That said, that's a third party, but also an example of what they could do.
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same way twitter made money.
Decentralized, yeah sure!
Tbh I've seen more people asking for this than the people complaining.
How come they don't use the already built in domain verification? It's basically fool proof to certify that an account is owned by a specific entity.
I think having both is nice
It's what Twitter had and most people on blueksy just want Twitter before Elon. It sucks but that is really what the majority of people even want. They don't care about the decentralized stuff.
There's been a lot of impersonated accounts popping up lately, so it doesn't surprise me they've opted to do something like this.
Oh yeah, they are literally everywhere. And a lot of them are impersonating people that haven't switched from Twitter yet to take advantage of it specifically.
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The fuck did anyone expect?
Anyone who is surprised that BlueSky is going down the same path as Twitter (X, not withstanding) belongs on BlueSky.
If it ends Elon, I’m gonna allow it. If Twitter fails, his stock in Tesla will have to back it. If that tanks… he’ll have to work his way out of bankruptcy. Just squeeze….
Yeah for the masses they will likely always flock to commercialized easy to use social media that reaches critical mass the fastest, so them being willing to move and keep moving is best we can hope for. For rest of us stuff like fediverse will be there to use.
He’s already sold Twitter/X to xAI; he’s got his arse covered when the bottom eventually falls out.
Good thing AI can’t fail.
Oh, no doubt - but he’s no longer personally on the hook for Twitter’s $44b debt-loan!
So when it eventually fails, it’ll be a corporate write-off and Elon’s wealth across Tesla and SpaceX are protected.
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That raised some eyebrows. Not sure it’ll hold just yet. Still. His world is getting smaller.
I think a few more people "get it" every time the cycle repeats, but also, a sucker is born every minute.
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Bluesky, the decentralized social network [...]
Were only one instance exist or did I miss something?
As I understand it, the protocol has the ability to decentralize built in. But the technical requirements are prohibitively high to the point only large businesses or corps could afford to do it. I also believe (someone correct me) the company hasn’t switched on the functionality yet.
my mom has always told me that I had the potential to work at NASA. but the requirements are prohibitively high
I believe in you!
all you need is a work ethic and a time machine
Last heard (a few months ago) the cost is in storage. The protocol isn’t too complicated now, but it generates a shit ton of data, and IIRC you need a minimum of 3 copies.
Storage is cheap whwn it comes to webhosting and 3 replicas is honestly not much when it comes to enterprise standards. I think cloud storage providers like backblaze keep something like 9 copies of data across different mediums
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Nope, it's 100% centralized.
It's 100% centralized, but with the ability to be decentralized. Sorta like Threads before they started federating
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This is a little bit more black and white compared with the other responses. 🙈
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