πŸ•ΈοΈ Testing Bluesky

on Midsummer February 20, 2024 in 12:00, CET
A few details I didn't like on BlueSky.

🟦 I signed up with BlueSky to test it

Regretfully I have to say that I am not impressed.

I connected a custom domain immediately per signed up, in hope it has some other features as well, but nothing like it. You just get a different username that features your website and not their username(.)bsky(.)social default username.

You can block/mute/moderate but there is no privacy settings for posts, so completely useless if I wish to set up any sort of a private publishing like I can have on Mastodon.

Also, no private messages of any kind. Everything is public, so forget about chat and similar stuff you like.

I am also completely disinterested in this website because of the level of spam and fakery. For example - a cat account that dropships cat featured T-shirts from Shopify, and posts nothing but cat photos three times per day for 8 months has 62k followers, and only one glimpse on their followers will tell you that majority are bots.

I think this one will have the same destiny like Nostr; after a few weeks ( maybe even days) I will just abandon it and delete my posts there.

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