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Consuming the Bluesky firehose for less than $2.50/mo

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239 points colinprince | 4 comments | 15 Nov 24 23:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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bradgessler ◴[16 Nov 24 00:39 UTC] No.42153033[source]▶
Two reasons to like BlueSky:

1. Your username can be your website. I'm @bradgessler.com.

2. Copy and pasting images into a message works on iOS (this has been broken on X/Twitter for a long time).

There's more reasons to like it, but these two feel pretty great.

I put a Ruby hacker starter pack together if you're looking for a way in:

https://go.bsky.app/HXB2cPh

There's tons of other ones and communities as well.

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1. Vaslo ◴[16 Nov 24 01:10 UTC] No.42153261[source]▶
It’s going to go the way of Threads and Mastadon. Lukewarm results at best, but glad you are enjoying it.
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2. bradgessler ◴[16 Nov 24 01:16 UTC] No.42153298[source]▶
Perhaps, but I haven’t seen this level of momentum and consensus behind a text-based social network since early Twitter.

Time will tell—ultimately it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. If people “believe” and sign up, it will happen.

3. nmfisher ◴[16 Nov 24 03:01 UTC] No.42153763[source]▶
I jumped on Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads during earlier exodi. They all waned for various reasons (Mastodon was slow and unreliable, Threads was basically an Instagram feed of nothingness, and Bluesky was dead at the time).

This wave does feel very different though. People joining in large numbers (I gained more followers in a day than in a year on Mastodon). The Bluesky app itself is actually very nice. Twitter is becoming more and more unbearable with the force-feeding of ads and totally broken search (that's without even mentioning the post-election environment).

You might be right, but I do feel like this time is different. Let's check back in 12 months and see.

@nickfisherau.bsky.social if anyone wants to say hello.

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4. mountainriver ◴[16 Nov 24 15:45 UTC] No.42156952[source]▶
Agree, mastodon always had a big UX problem and threads never gives me anything I want. I’ve actually really been enjoying bsky, it has the early social network feel right now where everything is just fun