Drako

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heavy metal scientist. sometimes literally. fountain pen enjoyer. queer and more than old enough to remember when you couldn't use the internet and your home phone at the same time

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Drako @drakonis12/24/2023, 1:43 AM

Damien @eramdam

walking mirage @atomicthumbs12/23/2023, 8:58 PM

got an email from bluesky. they got a new logo and everything is visible to the public web now (opt-out only). they also added lists. "oh good, I can put my friends who went to Bluesky on a list and see just their posts, to keep up," I think.

not so fast! lists are public. so if I make a list of my best friends, everyone on the entire world wide web will know who my friends are

damn website is designed and run by mutants

#bluesky

Damien @eramdam12/23/2023, 9:36 PM

In a funny way I think the butterfly works well for Bluesky because it communicates how lightly they think of social media and its impacts. A certain naiveté they keep expressing by shipping features in the most "I've never experienced bad things online" way possible.
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/12-21-2023-butterfly

#bluesky #i do not like the butterfly logo #it's fine it just looks silly to me is all

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SPLATTER @splatter12/23/2023, 9:24 PM

also no gifs, which is just wild to me

walking mirage @atomicthumbs12/23/2023, 9:30 PM

what the hell

Damien @eramdam12/23/2023, 9:33 PM

i think in a way it's a blessing, given how they still compress images like shit, they'd be capable of shipping gifs by compressing them at 20% quality or something

Nire Bryce @NireBryce12/23/2023, 9:39 PM

their first hires were all cryptocurrency folks and this tracks

living in 16QAM @vxo12/24/2023, 1:20 AM

Oh. Of course

meredith @meredith12/23/2023, 9:56 PM

i think the alt front-end https://deck.blue/ may have a private list implementation but that doesn't share with any other app of course.

the public list stuff and public blocks are so weird. like nire said, there are crypto design decisions showing

there are programmable lists/feeds though, like lists that only include member's posts when tagged with a 🧪, or a dynamic list that shows posts by your quieter follows. i also don't see bluesky ever being meaningfully federated, just the super huge main instance (with people using custom domain handles) and a only a handful of super nerds with personal servers.

Zuthal @Zuthal12/23/2023, 9:56 PM

List have been a thing there, and have been public for quite a while now

Mostly for the purpose of public blocklists

(Who decides who goes on a specific list? Whoever created the list of course)

walking mirage @atomicthumbs12/24/2023, 2:11 AM

This is an entirely separate concept

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce12/23/2023, 10:23 PM

I'm so disappointed. at least make it like chaos theory

Erica @erica12/24/2023, 2:57 AM

i'm weirdly coming around on it in that it's like.... not bad it's just stupid and i'd rather have stupid than bad after so many years of truly tragically bad brand/rebrands

Damien @eramdam12/24/2023, 6:49 AM

I guess. I’m just annoyed because it feels too cute for the company who thought shipping a website without blocks was a good idea and who can’t moderate properly without being yelled at.

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