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I would just like to say that I am excited for Bluesky to exist. It might go poorly, but I&#x27;m unwilling to write off weird attempts at innovation before the technology has had a chance to evolve in the wild.<p>I&#x27;ve seen several posts lately that have made me feel like the HN sentiment towards Bluesky is negative. Throwing them under the bus for the domain validation mistake. Hatred at commercialization of a protocol. Questioning why Bluesky would do anything but become a worse Twitter since Jack Dorsey is at the helm.<p>C&#x27;mon! At least give it the benefit of doubt while in beta! I, for one, frequently lament how fragmented my IM programs have become. I felt like there was an ideal point where Pidgin + XMPP interfaced with <i>everything</i> and we&#x27;ve slowly walked away from that high water mark. So, approaching communication at the protcol level has a certain appeal. I get the reasoning behind the goal.<p>Do I have concerns that this is another attempt at building a walled garden around something I wish to be open and interoperable? Of course! Do I think it&#x27;s a net negative on society for someone to be making their attempt? No! Bring on the new tech!<p>I wish I had a more nuanced argument to make my case because I&#x27;m sure there will be tons of replies here telling me why my opinion is bad and I&#x27;ll be unable to refute them. And those responses will likely make very fair points, but oh well!  I needed to at least try to throw some optimism about technology into the HackerNews foray.