Gmail was also like this. Creating scarcity and learning hard lessons without ruining reputation in front of the whole internet is very smart. I am rooting for

Gmail was also like this. Creating scarcity and learning hard lessons without ruining reputation in front of the whole internet is very smart. I am rooting for bluesky simply because they have been making good strategic decisions like this and have actual commerical backing. Their name itself was the first good decision they made. Wth is lemmy,nostr, mastodon. Meta gets it with "Threads" for example. It's almost like products with bad names were named by people that went "I think this sounds cool and has an interesting meaning" and stopped there without considering marketability and consumer psychology. People will sign up or ignore your product just because of the name. Honestly, "Threads" is a better name than "bluesky" too imo. But my hope is that they test these names using large focus groups.