"Bluesky" can mean at least four different things depending on the context. What do we mean exactly?
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
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Why I Call Myself a "Bluesky Research Fellow" - Nightflight
Translating this for non-technical people: Right now Bluesky is a big warehouse party where there's one giant dance floor. But now the team has made it possible to build a room where you can throw your own party behind closed doors. And because it's your party, it can be any kind of party you want!
daniel holmgren 🫠
with a bit of perspective, I wanted to write this post which reintroduces spaces as a new primitive for atproto! spaces are a deeply social & "atmospheric" primitive & I kinda think they uniquely thread the needle on our design goals
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.pubCurrent platforms are trying to be the only place you hangout. In the real world, we call that a trap. Bluesky is a distribution engine — we send people to off platform experiences. Go read that blog on @beehiiv.com or watch the livestream on @stream.place.
"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer
There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted
overreacted.ioBluesky is not a social network or a product or a service, it is fundamentally a promise - a promise that you can decide — with others in your social geography — where you want to be in the digital world, and you don’t have to lose all of the bits that represent you in the process.
Aaron Ross Powell
Is Bluesky dying? Is it the community's fault? Should people here refrain from criticizing journalists who think J. K. Rowling might have a point? The thing is, it doesn't matter. Because the answer isn't to make Bluesky change. It's to take advantage of Bluesky's tech to build something else.
