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The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

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590 points consumer451 | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 22:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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null0pointer ◴[17 Nov 24 10:05 UTC] No.42163194[source]▶
A lot of commenters here are having their minds blown by this. And while I also love this I get the sense that many others here are maybe too young to remember that this kind of open access to data used to exist for lots websites. It inspired companion sites and loads of creativity. I find it tragic really, what the internet has become. I hope federated, and even more-so p2p, protocols take significant foothold on the internet and help revive this spirit of the web. The corpo-web is so fucking boring.
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weberer ◴[17 Nov 24 18:07 UTC] No.42165721[source]▶
I'm not too up to date on Twitter clones. What's the difference between this and Mastadon?
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geek_at ◴[17 Nov 24 18:59 UTC] No.42166119[source]▶
Mastodon has about 1 million active accounts, bluesky has 12 and you can also host your own data. Threads (by meta) has 100 million but you can't federate it yet so bluesky is the way to go currently for selfhosters and privacy advocates.
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1. gdubs ◴[17 Nov 24 19:48 UTC] No.42166556[source]▶
Mastodon is also confusing for a lot of people and when you point it out techies will appear to yell at you and tell you that "no in fact it isn't."

Whereas Bluesky has a familiar consumer app feeling to it.

Each of these sites also has a distinct vibe. Threads, for example, feels a bit like when Time Square turned into a kind of Disney property. It's clean and safe! But it also lacks a bit of soul.