Bluesky comes up in the latest ActivityPub newsletter update from Ghost:
Another cool thing that happened last week was that we enabled a bridge to BlueSky — an alternative decentralized social network which doesn’t use ActivityPub, but instead uses its own alternative protocol.
I was confused on my first reading of this. They’ve enabled Brid.gy, not built anything specific for Ghost. Also, I’m sorry this is so nitpicky, but no one in the fediverse seems to be able to spell Bluesky correctly.
Mark Stoneman Bluesky themselves have been inconsistent, so I figure we don’t have to be. As far as confusion over “enabl[ing] a bridge” goes, I’d suggest a prescription that I’m about due for more of: ☕️
Nick Radcliffe I wonder how many of them can’t spell Blooski correctly, and how many of them choose not to, because the stupid way Blooski spells it makes you read it like the name of a Russian mobster.
When no one can/does get your (company) name right, there’s a problem with your company name. They should change it to BlueSky or pronounce it Blooski.
Ash K @manton Dunno if that's it but the fediverse rewired my AcronymBrain toward capitalisation because it works better with screen readers. MacOS reads the proper capitalisation as "blooski" which is very funny 😆
Manton Reece @njr I’ve never once thought it looked like “blooski”, but I guess some people do. There’s no right or wrong way to name a company or product with a compound-like word… Off the top of my head: GitHub, WordPress, Zendesk, Salesforce, Microsoft, ActivityPub, WebSub, Micropub, Microsub. Repeatedly typing the wrong spelling shows a lack of interest.
Nick Radcliffe I completely agree in general. But sometimes particular ones are problematical.
expertsexchange was a really bad one.
Manton Reece @njr That’s true, there are some that are too unusual to make any sense. Ai Pin is another one.
