Now on Bluesky

2024-11-24

I am now on Bluesky!

Couple of things:

• Love how they do domain verification. Sure, Mastodon’s way of checking profile linkback is cool, too, but adding an actual DNS record feels “official”. Maybe it doesn’t scale very well, but they provide an alternate in the form of a .well-known file.
• Interface is exactly like Twitter/X, but you don’t have to see Nazis. Sold!

Overall, this really seems like the replacement for Twitter. While Mastodon had some really innovative ideas in terms of federation and what not, the overall structure of it, coupled with the card column layout, was too confusing for normal people.

Now here’s to hoping it stays this way. Third time’s the charm?

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