isn’t bluesky invite only?
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Each current member usually get at least one invite to share biweekly. That’s how they have been growing it.
Google+ did the same thing when it rolled out, then they tried to force people to use it before they cancelled the project.
In fairness, Gmail had a similar invite system when it launched and that's been way more successful than G+
Gmail was also both "federated" and an insanely good product compared to its contemporaries. G+ had a couple of interesting innovations, but it wasn't all that special and invite-only on a closed ecosystem is very iffy.
Gmail was literally the best. 1GB space at launch when you'd get a dozen MB in Hotmail and others, slick fast UI in a browser.
Gmail was invite only at first probably because Google didn't want it to grow faster than they could buy hard drives. It gave you a gigabyte of email storage which at the time was huge. I'm certain they did that for technical reasons.
"i am the choosen one!" As if...
Boy, our servers are ducktaped!
I wonder why people aren’t going for mastodon.
Mastadon (and the Fediverse in general, to some extent) has problems with discoverability and the average user finds federation confusing. People tend to either use microblogging to see what's going on with people they're interested in or to broadcast their activities to a large group of people, and Mastadon currently doesn't fit that niche very well.
People are so desperate for anything RESEMBLING twitter, that they'll sign up for a trash service like BS.
Mastodon undoubtedly has more brand recognition at this point.
Honestly, before reading this comment I never noticed that BlueSky shortens to BS, lol
Great another social media platform from the same fart huffing dumb asses that sold Twitter... it's like people don't learn lessons.
FYI jack isn't in control of the site and in fact even deleted his account after the userbase mocked him hard enough, he's all in on nostr now
Also it has federation in testing in a sandbox environment open to external developers, it will work similarly to Mastodon in that regard
"Mr Dorsey, ypur new platform is picking up, people are starting to use it"
"... I'm bored"
"Excuse me?"
"I don't want to have a social platform. I just want to make them" *Starts to leave*
"Mr. dorsey? Where are you going? Jack!?"
I love that I mentioned fart huffing and you automatically assumed I meant Jack.
Maybe they just don't have the infra (and if they still don't, I don't believe they ever will). Turn off invites and make it open-season or shut the whole thing down. It's not a competitor like this.