{"id":42226,"date":"2024-02-26T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42226"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:18:33","slug":"a-complete-guide-to-bluesky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/26\/a-complete-guide-to-bluesky\/","title":{"rendered":"A Complete Guide to Bluesky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kuba Suder<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For the past 10 months, I’ve been a pretty active user of Bluesky. I enjoy it a lot, and I’ve managed to learn a lot about how it works, what works well and what doesn’t, and also what’s likely coming next.<\/p>

I’ve decided to write down some of the tips & tricks that I often give to friends when I send them an invite code, or the advice and answers that I sometimes give to people that I find in some feed asking about things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Klabnik<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One of the reasons I am enthusiastic about BlueSky is because of the way that it works. So in this post, I am going to lay out some of the design and the principles behind this design, as I understand them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Bluesky<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Mastodon is another federated social network built on a protocol called ActivityPub. While Bluesky — built on a protocol called the AT Protocol (atproto) — shares the term “federation” with other networks, the way it works is very different.<\/p>\n

On Bluesky, server choice doesn’t affect what content you see. Servers are only one piece of the protocol — when you browse Bluesky, you see posts that are pulled together from many different servers. This is why you can change your server after signing up without losing your username, friends, or posts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Not terribly impressed by the answers to the third questions in the #Bluesky ‘open social web’ post, which spends an awful lot of time talking about Mastodon in a manner people on Mastodon wouldn’t recognise.<\/p>\n

If you’re going to write about a rival service, not misrepresenting it is a better way to engender trust. Spin, not so much. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s not clear to me what Bluesky misrepresented.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n