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Most refs are links to Bluesky itself

It seems like most of the online refs are to Bluesky's own website. Does this warrant a hat on the article? nhinchey (talk) 07:16, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 6 September 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bobby Cohn (talk) 12:38, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bluesky (social network) → Bluesky – has become the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, disambiguation page should also be moved. PhotographyEdits (talk) 12:15, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom—blindlynx 16:16, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per the arguments of the proposal. LemurianPatriot (talk) 17:50, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support The previous nomination reached no consensus largely because the platform was relatively new, in closed beta and contained only a fraction of the users it now has. Baldemoto (talk) 00:24, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support, and I agree with what everyone has been saying. It's definitely popular enough now and open to everyone. Chewsterchew (talk) 13:51, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per the nomination. I agree that this has become the primary topic. Aoba47 (talk) 02:14, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. And Bluesky should be returned to redirecting to Blue Sky, from where it was moved on 14 August without discussion (and contrary to the previous RM). -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:29, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support none of the other topics on the disambiguation page are even remotely notable. Knotbin (talk) 20:32, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom RodRabelo7 (talk) 06:44, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Post-2024 US presidential election decamp from Twitter/X

Just adding this reference from The Guardian.^[1] RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 07:46, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Ittimani, Luca (12 November 2024). "Bluesky adds 700,000 new members as users flee X after the US election". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-12.

Criticism in introductory section feels out of place

LemurianPatriot recently added a paragraph criticizing Bluesky to the introductory paragraph. Given criticism stems largely from two people (one with previous financial interest in the company) and is not otherwise integrated in the article, it feels out of place and might not be in line with WP:CRIT guidelines. If there are a few more articles critiquing Bluesky itself which can be made into a cogent section, it might work better as a dedicated Criticism section in this article or in the AT Protocol article. There are already a few criticism articles in the AT Protocol page which this might be useful for. Baldemoto (talk) 20:30, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Moving criticism to AT Protocol and putting a small mention in the Bluesky article is the way to go. I only left it in the lead because of a previous edit, and I couldn't bother to find a better place for it. LemurianPatriot (talk) 22:10, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That works! I'll try and get a criticisms section going soon, though feel free to get ahead of me. Doctorow's article is a good place to begin but there have been previous articles critical of ATProto written before. I'll try to dig them up. Baldemoto (talk) 23:06, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article is a mess

What is "Service history" and why don't we just have a "History" section? And why is there a separate "Bluesky Social" section that provides all kinds of Twitter-centric history? Why isn't this part of the History section, and if Bluesky Social is so distinct from Bluesky then it should be its own article. How do we fix this mess of an article? --ZimZalaBim ^talk 02:52, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I am the one who created the Bluesky Social section.

I did it to separate the history of the social media platform and the company, since the history between the two is intertwined, but also separate at the same time (if that makes since).

I hope that myself, or somebody else, can eventually clean it up to make it less "messy", but there's seems to be an influx of editors at the moment, so that may be a slow down. 2601:19E:8380:B570:4312:8EC6:C9E:FDB2 (talk) 21:21, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think a revamp is sorely needed. The header section itself is fine and in-line with other social media platforms, but the rest is definitely in need of some major rewriting. I think we should try and follow a similar structure as other social media services - That being History (of both the social media platform and the company, for the time being), Features, Technology (brief overview of the AT Protocol could likely be placed here) and Reception. If the social app becomes significantly decentralized away from Bluesky Social (i.e. they're not running most of the social app) then a separate article for Bluesky Social would be warranted. However, this is not the case yet, so I believe the app and the company should be integrated for now. I'm willing to hear out different ideas for how to better this article, however. Baldemoto (talk) 01:03, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have taken the initiative to revamp the page. I have attempted to keep as much information as possible, though I had to discard some information that didn't quite fit anywhere in the article. I believe the article is overall much more readable now and in a better state to add information, but if there are any major or minor sticking points please do share here. Baldemoto (talk) 05:36, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Official link for Bluesky?

When I googled, I found at least three results for Bluesky. Is there an official link? I found at least .app, and .social. The site at .com was apparently a different thing. Misty MH (talk) 11:01, 18 November 2024 (UTC) Misty MH (talk) 10:59, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

bsky.social is the company page, while bsky.app is the social app itself. Baldemoto (talk) 03:54, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TY. Misty MH (talk) 04:01, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[ittimani-2024-1] Ittimani, Luca (12 November 2024). "Bluesky adds 700,000 new members as users flee X after the US election". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-12.

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