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The most vocal and obnoxious of the Bluesky userbase get antagonized by pretty much anything. Pleasing that lot is a fruitless task. What Bluesky should do now

The most vocal and obnoxious of the Bluesky userbase get antagonized by pretty much anything. Pleasing that lot is a fruitless task. What Bluesky should do now is focus on expanding their userbase away from this particular group of insufferables.

CactusBlue 6mo ago
As a startup founder, your userbase is your god. Either treat them with utmost respect, or learn to explicitly fire your customers.
- jauntywundrkind 6mo ago
  You have more than one user base. You have to make hard product decisions about which user bases to serve.
  - CactusBlue 6mo ago
    Then explicitly refuse service, instead of mocking your userbase.
    - pfraze 6mo ago
      By... banning them? What are you suggesting?
- yuestion 6mo ago
  If they want to remain a niche echo-chamber platform rather than become a major social network, that would be an appropriate strategy. However, I expect they have higher ambitions. What they should also do is redesign (or remove) the "nuclear block" feature. In its current state, it helps perpetuate a hostile and exclusionary atmosphere to new users, which isn't going to help Bluesky grow an active and diverse userbase.
marxisttemp 6mo ago
They should focus on implementing ActivityPub instead of their useless proprietary protocol
- danabramov 6mo ago
  It's not "proprietary", it's openly specified and is literally being taken to IETF: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf Also, unlike ActivityPub, it's actually useful for building features that normal people expect from social apps — for example, algorithmic feeds and search, and a single interlinked world (rather than fragmented "servers").
  - bschmidt1 6mo ago
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- CactusBlue 6mo ago
  Eh, AP has its own sets of problems (underspecified protocol, split-brained on discoverability, new developments are met with hostility in the community)
clitui 6mo ago
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subscribed 6mo ago
What do you compare this userbase to? Twitter? Facebook? Reddit? HN? All of these places have similar or worse userbase and worse filtering/blocking options than bsky.

CactusBlue 6mo ago

As a startup founder, your userbase is your god. Either treat them with utmost respect, or learn to explicitly fire your customers.

jauntywundrkind 6mo ago
You have more than one user base. You have to make hard product decisions about which user bases to serve.
- CactusBlue 6mo ago
  Then explicitly refuse service, instead of mocking your userbase.
  - pfraze 6mo ago
    By... banning them? What are you suggesting?
yuestion 6mo ago
If they want to remain a niche echo-chamber platform rather than become a major social network, that would be an appropriate strategy. However, I expect they have higher ambitions. What they should also do is redesign (or remove) the "nuclear block" feature. In its current state, it helps perpetuate a hostile and exclusionary atmosphere to new users, which isn't going to help Bluesky grow an active and diverse userbase.

marxisttemp 6mo ago

They should focus on implementing ActivityPub instead of their useless proprietary protocol

danabramov 6mo ago
It's not "proprietary", it's openly specified and is literally being taken to IETF: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf Also, unlike ActivityPub, it's actually useful for building features that normal people expect from social apps — for example, algorithmic feeds and search, and a single interlinked world (rather than fragmented "servers").
- bschmidt1 6mo ago
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CactusBlue 6mo ago
Eh, AP has its own sets of problems (underspecified protocol, split-brained on discoverability, new developments are met with hostility in the community)

clitui 6mo ago

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subscribed 6mo ago

What do you compare this userbase to? Twitter? Facebook? Reddit? HN? All of these places have similar or worse userbase and worse filtering/blocking options than bsky.