So, I have a #BlueSky now - and I took a first initial look at the UI and new-user-experience. And, I have to applaud them, it's awesome.

- Immediately upon entering a valid invite, you are shown fields to input your E-Mail and Password. So I fed it a SimpleLogin alias and a Bitwarden generated password and dumped that into my vault. To me, the E-Mail neccessity is annoying, but to a "generic user" this would be fine. Just plug in a GMail and move on.

- When setting up my initial follows, I am shown what seems to be curated topics. On Nostr, that would be a list of the most popular hashtags. After picking a few, I can then follow the people most active around these categories. In Nostr, that would basically be `SELECT npub FROM notes WHERE kind=1 AND tags CONTAINS topic LIMIT 1000 GROUP BY npub ORDER BY COUNT;` on something like Nostr Band. Just pick the latest posts with a certain tag and show the most popular users in that list.

- When clicking Follow and Unfollow, it is ridiculously fast. I am used to waiting a few seconds for the action to actually take effect or be represented in my respective GUI.

- My username is ingwiephoenix.bsky.social - I can remember that, and it reminds me of my nip05. But I have seen other people with different domains, so I can probably just run my own and thus copy my current NIP05 if I wanted to. It is more readable than an npub string, but feels far less portable. It may be as un-portable as a Fediverse name.

- URLs are structured quite simply: /profile/$username/status/$statusid - easy to remember, but not short like snort.social/e/abc...

Overall, the UI feels very responsive and fast and the layout is "basically Twitter". But I also noticed: No DM support.

I have yet to read ATProto and dig into the socialness of that platform, but now that I have an account, I can check it as much as I would like to!