I am just interested to hear people's opinions
I am an NSFW developer. I created a Bluesky account to promote myself.
Practically 100% of my followers are women with OnlyFans accounts,
which is fine since I want to reach a female audience. However, few of them have engaged.
I have enough women on my Bluesky account that my girlfriend would break up with me three times and give me a strike for the fourth time.
Using as a lurker without an account, I can’t tell much about the community. But as an RSS user, it’s pretty good.
However, I fear it may degrade like the ~2010’s social medias over time too, due to what I could understand of its alleged decentralization, sounding more like being centralized with extra steps. From what I could gather, posts from a cluster of Bluesky-powered sites first go through a central server and then to each site, and so if an ill-intended individual takes over, downhill it goes.
Comparing that to e.g. Mastodon and compatible platforms, each platform talks to each other individually, so in those at least if I don’t like a given platform’s community, I don’t need to leave the environment altogether, just focus on a platform whose folks I would rather spend my time with.
Theoretically both Bluesky and Mastodon work like emails: everyone can set their own, provided they have the resources for that, and they should be able to communicate with compatible email services.
But while Mastodon delivers those “emails” directly to the destination address, Bluesky sends to a middleman which then sends to the destination.
Now, if a Mastodon site is compromised, people in other sites can avoid it. But if Bluesky’s middleman is compromised, it’s much harder to avoid it as many interconnected sites depend on it.
Also just asked and apparently, according to Grok, multiple such “middlemen” can be set for a single Bluesky instance. If that is correct*, I still can think of some fail points, though then I’d need to figure out how Bluesky handles identifying connection throttling, shadow bans and delivered data’s integrity.
*I don’t fully trust AIs’ quality and it’s not an area I know a bunch to sprinkle questions for quality control