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Count me out of yet another cool clique where invites from friends get you a foot in the door of a social popularity pageant. And tracking, of course, we must

• soneca 3y ago
  I understand the sentiment, and I might be naive, but I really do think the restriction is due to technical reasons. It is a purposefully slow go to market plan because the engineering team is small, the tech new, and they are not ready to serve millions of users. It doesn’t look at all as something like Clubhouse was (which was exactly what you described). Some evidence is that a few people that I follow that got in say it looks empty (not “cool” or with everyone “that matters”), also the idea of customizable feed algorithm doesn’t align with the popularity contest strategy. And the rumors that Bluesky was having technical troubles after Twitter rate-limited users due to the high load.