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> rebuilding a social graph is a huge ask.

It is. I felt like the Bsky team was too focused on protocol in the beginning, and they missed MANY opportunities for user growth.

I recall a comment here that said ~"you guys missed the chance of a generation by staying invite only." I had agreed with that at them time. However, X/Twitter keeps making decisions which make the small, underfunded, yet smartest team in the land look pretty darn cool. (they were cool af the whole time)

I highly recommend listening to an interview with the CEO, Jay Graber. I became a huge fan of her vision after doing so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aDDKv4nPM

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-grab...

Requiring a separate app was another problem. My phone already has an app for viewing web pages,it doesn't need another one.

bsky.app works absolutely fine in a web browser and I use it instead of the mobile application. (It's React Native, so they push a build to the web.)

It works now, that wasn't the case last time I'd looked.

I wouldn't call it "absolutely fine" by any means. It's way too slow to render for me to use (took about 30 seconds to render the submitted link on my phone, mastodon took about 10 seconds to render a toot). I'm beyond sick of slow web pages.

The mobile web application worked about as well as it does today from at least my join date of April 27, 2023.

As for performance on my iPhone 15, on a 5G (not 5GUW) network, it loads in a second and a half; I just checked. I have some complaints with what RN does in terms of affordances but performance isn't a problem.

Admittedly, my phone (Pixel 3a) is a piece of crap. I just checked it on my Thinkpad on a gigabit connection. It still took about 10 seconds of that spinning circle to render the page content.

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