Jay 🦋: Mike’s “Protocols, Not Platforms” paper actually inspired Twitter to start bluesky. There’s a lot of work ahead, but this is what we’re trying to do: to get open protocol adoption for social by building something fundamentally better, in service to the user.

Mike’s “Protocols, Not Platforms” paper actually inspired Twitter to start bluesky. There’s a lot of work ahead, but this is what we’re trying to do: to get open protocol adoption for social by building something fundamentally better, in service to the user.

I wrote about Bluesky opening up, what it means, and why I think it remains the most interesting social media experiment going today. www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/b...

Bluesky Opens Upwww.techdirt.com Bluesky is now open to anyone without an invite. And a bunch of other exciting things are coming soon. As many of you know, I’ve been pretty excited about where Bluesky is going as a social media o�...

I was toying with the idea of creating multiple Twitter accounts in an attempt to funnel my interests so I could completely avoid politics, for example, whem it got too much or, geology/botany, when I wanted to go to my happy place. I've no idea how to code though so happy there are others doin that

you can try custom feeds here to control your scroll! bsky.social/about/blog/7...

Algorithmic Choice with Custom Feeds - Blueskybsky.social Our implementation of algorithmic choice lets users customize one of the most important parts of their social media experience: their feed.

I maaaaay have already gone a bit crazy over this feature over the last month or two! 😂🥳❤️❤️❤️ I've got a few more to add but *trying*y best to be as discerning as possible 👍🏼 I wonder how much curation they will need moving forward and more used post more to each?

"Control your scroll" is a good motto.

Way too complicated and too much time involved... i prefer reading real books.

I can't wait to get dms, gifs/videos and tags to be able to find posts easier :D

Congrats!🎉Jay😊

Is it decentralized and web 3.0 ?

Federated (like email, XMPP, Matrix.org), no blockchain. Built with protocols focused on content addressing

Yep.. i thought so.. Thank you 👍

So exciting!

jay. we need hashtags, bookmarks, and editing. like all the well made social media apps have now. and let your app show up on ipad share sheet!

Hang on! Is this site being run by Twitter- (or it's bastard child??)

It's fully independent now, they provided funding originally but cut ties eventually.

Thx. Thought so. It was a brief v alarming thought!

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