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tierney cyren
@bnb.im

one thing I feel Bluesky hasn’t taken advantage of is being able to build new forms of interaction it’s twitter. It is. There’s nothing that would make me want to use it over twitter if I’d not already made that choice. No different ways to engage, nothing unique.

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damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣
@damien.zone

that's honestly my biggest beef with bluesky as a website. the protocol (even tho im not a fan) allows for so much more beyond "Twitter 2" and yet the website is hellbent on being Twitter 2, it's frustrating lol

tierney cyren
@bnb.im

I think having a ton of different ways to post on this platform *could* be great both for users and for marketing. Mix in features Twitter nuked, conceptualize new ones, yoink and twist from non-microblogging platforms.

Michael Black
@michael.bsky.team

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alex benzer@alexbenzer.com

communities are coming to Bluesky this year. today, Bluesky is one big space. communities will be smaller spaces inside that where you can go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff.

tierney cyren
@bnb.im

I’m definitely aware of this and think it’s a great step! Communities are great and I’m sure there’s a lot more that can come from them.

Jeremy
@jvuillermet.eu

I thought alternatives to bluesky would be more bold but they also are just clones. Even if bluesky can't experiment quick enough, surely alternative clients could. That's the point of atproto but I don't see it either

Jeremy
@jvuillermet.eu

Ho thanks, I will have a look. I knew mu but it's still very much like Twitter. I didn't know the other 2 and indeed anisota is interesting!

Mathew Lowry
@mathewlowry.eurosky.social

They all use the same underlying Lexicon so there's a natural limit to their diversity although an soda does a great job of showing how much diversity is actually possible. Integration with other lexicons is probably where these apps will truly set themselves apart. For example,

Sergey Chernyshev
@sergeyche.dev

Starter packs are a difference that actually got my attention and helped me eventually join this space. Ability to persist feed selection is the thing that made me stay. There is obviously portability itself, which is critical, but not exercised frequently.

J Lopes
@jlopes.eu

It would be nice if we could "hook" many of the other @atproto.com projects into it somehow. Setting up a candidate program, where these could join as integration apps.

C
@clofresh.bsky.social

It’s tough when you’re trying to scale. You have to run as fast as you can just to keep the status quo, so outwardly it feels like nothing is happening. They’d best be served by figuring out a revenue model that encourages others to build the cool shit on top of the protocol.

tierney cyren
@bnb.im

yeah completely. One potential path they have is exposing capabilities in the app for data from other lexicons to be displayed.

tierney cyren
@bnb.im

Implementing it becomes pretty sprawling up front (permissioned data, communities, moderation) but I think long term it’s probably the best path to implementation and the best way to offload “interesting” expansion to the ecosystem.

tierney cyren
@bnb.im

Sure, if you mean likes and reposts. I’m more poking at user facing features like fleets, audio posts, polls, co-posts, and other lexicon posts like check-ins or music

tierney cyren
@bnb.im

ahhhh yeah completely agree, I’d love to seen them make Bluesky a microblogging platform where the ecosystem can build the integrations themselves kinda similar to how Slack does it?

tierney cyren@bnb.im

yeah completely. One potential path they have is exposing capabilities in the app for data from other lexicons to be displayed.