Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: bluesky

Remember, Kids: just because Bluesky is suddenly and massively popular whilst X is dying on the vine does *not* mean that all those people screaming that “network effects prevent people moving between social networks, we must regulate!” — were wrong…

2024/11/27
Regulators. They are attracted by success and limelight. They feed on headlines. They will hunt for you.

2024/11/25
I feel that the defining attribute of Bluesky is the number of users who follow ~10 people, are followed by ~10 people, and yet who block 1000+ people; it’s not *bad* per-se…

2024/11/14
Unpopular Opinion: new Bluesky “anti-toxicity” measures may have just carried us all a smidgen past “peak trust & safety”

2024/09/03
Just shipped: Bluesky Direct Messages! | …regrettably not end to end encrypted

2024/05/22
With experimental cross-silo Federation and so many Fediverse operators running on shoestring budgets, maybe we need Government regulators to demand that all content creators *must* accept this classic UX dialogue before posting

2024/02/15
Nice little explainer thread from David Thiel on the Bluesky Mastodon Bridge Brouhaha

2024/02/14
Reading this and remembering the (subset of) people who told me that it was irresponsible to release a password cracker to USENET in 1991 because it might be used by bad people to do bad things

2024/02/14
“Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered” | Mastodon users throwing a huge fit that their content may be copied to Bluesky by bridging software

2024/02/14
I got to say the new Bluesky logo is giving me familiar vibes…

2023/12/24
Economics has the “Lump of Labour Fallacy”; tech needs the “Lump of Social Community” fallacy

2023/11/12