Bluesky Status
What is Bluesky when it’s not the underdog? | TechCrunch
Bluesky is having a moment — a moment that’s already stretched on for nearly three months. Over the summer, the social media app saw a wave of new
Is Bluesky dying?
An attempt to untangle a few different arguments around the future of Bluesky – if it has one
Talking in a room with no name. - We Can Just Do Things
"Bluesky" can mean at least four different things depending on the context. What do we mean exactly?
Bluesky Basics: Complete Beginner's Guide to Using Bluesky
Bluesky Is Not The Center of The Atmosphere | Sam Clemente | Offprint
The Bluesky app is not—and should not be—an everything app
Each time someone says "Bluesky" and means one specific thing—or all four things at once—the conceptual fog thickens.
Talking in a room with no name.
wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pubTo be honest, I think this is more the ruling class in America manifesting that bluesky fails, rather than bluesky actually failing because they know they can't control it just by buying it out.
Mary Gillis
"But, two years since its launch, the site has around just 10% of X’s estimated global users." This is presented as a failure. At 2yo, having 10% of the users of its biggest rival, which is 20yo, is a failure. No tech is allowed to just be a success, it has to be a blockbuster or it doesn't count.
X is still better than Bluesky at combating misinformation
Grace
Clearing up a misconception I’m seeing floating around: OpenAI didn’t “misconfigure” Artifactory to allow agents to make arbitrary network requests. The agents exploited a zero day vulnerability in Artifactory to be able to do this.
This is a really insightful thread that points out some of the fundamental issues with the Bluesky community vs Bluesky as a decentralized protocol. This thread is also why I think it's a really smart move for Bluesky to appeal to fandoms... (cont.)
B. Prendergast
One of the Atmosphere’s big bets is that the next 100m users will be won by making decentralised tech + data sovereignty more compelling. I’m less than convinced. We may be solving problems only builders care about, while overlooking problems that actually make ordinary people choose a network.
i think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.
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things I said about Bluesky and the greater atmosphere
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