🦋 Bluesky Social

Im going to migrate to bluesky, but i dont want to use bsky.social because too many people joining may overload it (and also many people joining the same service makes the whole network vulnerable to censorship and puts it in risk of being taken down), so im looking for alternatives, especially if they are outside the US

"I'm not on Bluesky and I don't have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will

When a platform can hold the people you care about or rely upon hostage – when it can credibly threaten you with disconnection and exile – that platform can abuse you in lots of ways without losing your business. In other words, they can enshittify their service."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21445676

Apparently openvibe isn't open source, you might say sorasns but my iPhone 8 doesn't get iOS 18, I can't be bothered to Download an app for both Mastodon & Bluesky each

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16165411

Social media platform Bluesky says it has seen a surge in signups in the United Kingdom in recent days.

Since X owner Elon Musk made controversial comments about the riots in the UK, a number of influential figures said they would leave the platform or scale back their use, including home office minister Jess Philips.

Now, Bluesky says it has seen a 60% jump in general activity from accounts in the UK, with several MPs also joining the platform recently.

...

"For 5 out of the last 7 days, the UK had the most Bluesky signups of any country," said Bluesky in a statement on Monday.

Bridgy Fed can automatically generate a Bluesky presence for your site. You can also use it to follow any site that has microformats2 or an RSS/Atom feed. Includes profiles, posts, IndieWeb interactions, etc. Source

Examples:

• @electrek.co.web.brid.gy
• @nature.com.web.brid.gy
• @join-lemmy.org.web.brid.gy

Taurus Shield will expand the scope of their responsibilities as a result.

The level of control Bluesky gives users with custom feeds is simply incredible. I could recreate the Mastodon newsfeed without any coding whatsoever.

All I had to do was create a feed on Skyfeed that

• Inputs @aendra.com's list of verified news agencies (+ a couple of unofficial news accounts)
• sort using the HackerNews ranking algorithm

That's all I needed to do. Here is my tweaked version of this (no login necessary)..

{
    "displayName": "📰News (Trending)",
    "blocks": [
        {
            "type": "input",
            "inputType": "list",
            "id": "aaao2rd2fwsmg",
            "": 86400,
            "listUri": "at://did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5/app.bsky.graph.list/3jzmo456b6j2t"
        },
        {
            "type": "input",
            "inputType": "list",
            "id": "aaaknghipawwq",
            "listUri": "at://did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5/app.bsky.graph.list/3kc3ye6hmsd2y",
            "historySeconds": 86400
        },
        {
            "type": "input",
            "inputType": "list",
            "id": "aaae7ioefxgno",
            "listUri": "at://did:plc:sbl65o3w4adma7vbmovhyciy/app.bsky.graph.list/3krtw4uufwc2u",
            "historySeconds": 86400
        },
        {
            "type": "remove",
            "subject": "labels",
            "value": null,
            "id": "aaapxkh2aihps",
            "labels": [
                "did:plc:bpkpvmwpd3nr2ry4btt55ack/ai-imagery"
            ]
        },
        {
            "type": "sort",
            "sortType": "hn",
            "id": "aaaortezvepki",
            "gravity": "1.8",
            "sortDirection": "desc"
        }
    ],
    "license": "EUPL-1.2"
}

I am Germany originated as a Twitter account in 2012, and has been going for 12 years. I am the latest curator and we're trying to see if we can revitalise the concept on Bluesky as well!