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The fact that your whole community was insular enough to move to an invite-only app is exactly what worries me about Bluesky. It's just a bunch of cliques. Is t
by chatmasta 3y ago
The fact that your whole community was insular enough to move to an invite-only app is exactly what worries me about Bluesky. It's just a bunch of cliques. Is that sustainable? We'll see.
I do like the technical vision, a lot. But I haven't been able to try it out because any time I felt the desire to look, nobody could actually link me to a post or a feed. So I never achieved the required activation energy to even look at it, nevermind adding it to my doomscrolling repertoire or signing up to the thing.
Opening up the posts is a good first step to sustainable adoption. Now next time people are mad at Twitter they'll have an outlet instead of being met with a brick wall when they finally get the urge to try something new.
- rileyphone 3y agoHere's a few invite codes for anyone to use (maybe reply if you successfully use one) bsky-social-exnc4-5h2qb bsky-social-cocv2-coy6u bsky-social-txqzx-nqhw3 bsky-social-h6snn-255ig
- blondin 3y agothanks, used the first one.
- knubie 3y agoI used the second one, thanks!
- metadat 3y agoThey're all used up. Womp womp.
- brycewray 3y agoAnd a few more here... bsky-social-yxngj-y5dad bsky-social-fo32f-lz7p5 bsky-social-6txdl-ppkes bsky-social-ihhnj-w4e24 bsky-social-3kidb-2tagv
- anigbrowl 3y agobsky-social-brvm4-gwcnj bsky-social-llyit-xx3kt bsky-social-eeqkk-tf6qh bsky-social-qttr7-gjh3i bsky-social-qttr7-gjh3i
- execat 3y agoAll of these are used.
- CraftingLinks 3y agoI was ready to move. You need an invite? I don't have an invite. Really? Yes. Here's my middle finger. Twitter/X for life!!
- matsemann 3y agoAs I wrote in another comment, it's a clique that I moved with, yes. Related to urban planning, cycling infrastructure etc in my country. If anything, the move has been nice. No longer daily death threats from car drivers thinking that's a proportionate response for us advocating for a new bicycle lane.. Being a small group of course made the transition easier. Most of us didn't use Twitter to follow all kinds of stuff, just mostly these things. And while being a clique, with no outside influences, can be bad, the "influences" you now get from blue checks on X isn't anything worth having. Just abuse.