For those looking for a code - I found a valid code in 10 mins by looking up 'bsky-social-' on Twitter and refreshing the 'Latest' tab every few secs. Got to be quick and swift, but works.
Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
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Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#132Here are some invite codes. Because some people are complaining about bots to use these you should:
(1) reverse the order of the stuff before/after the hyphen (12345-67890 -> 67890-12345)
(2) add "bsky-social-" to the beginning.
Here are the codes:
45whe-qoupi
gmuxm-k6x3j
tc30d-wwpjb
tqunq-rtgar
7wecn-kfevc
I won't be online to delete these so if you use one (or try to use one and find it's done) please leave a comment to save other people from wasting time
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
The guarantee is that the AT protocol doesn’t work that way. They literally could not, technically. You own your data, the entire protocol is built around that basic fact.
Nothing stops them from changing the protocol. It's like insisting blockchain transactions are immutable when Etherium issues updates all the time to reverse transactions that happened due to hacks.
This is a really, really bad read. The point is that the data is built on the foundations of an enduring protocol, right now, and that if BlueSky were to pull some shenanigans it would be trivial for a user to pick up and move. The protocol provides a built-in incentive not to pull shenanigans.
Honestly, so many of the comments here are, but what if?? The what-if scenario is built-in to the design and is in fact more resilient than other protocols like ActivityPub.
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#134Lemmy.world also seems to be getting slammed. I am out of the loop, is this because of the reddit API change or did something else happen?
It probably also surged specifically today since the API change actually occurred yesterday.
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#135Anyone handing out Bluesky invite codes?
I've been looking for a invite for months — Twitter's new leadership doesn't align with my values and I feel uneasy participating there. My email is in my profile if anyone can spare an invite.
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#136Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#137Here are some invite codes. Because some people are complaining about bots to use these you should: (1) reverse the order of the stuff before/after the hyphen (12345-67890 -> 67890-12345) (2) add "bsky-social-" to the beginning. Here are the codes: 45whe-qoupi gmuxm-k6x3j tc30d-wwpjb tqunq-rtgar 7wecn-kfevc I won't be online to delete these so if you use one (or try to use one and find it's done) please leave a comme…
They all appear to be used. Bummer.
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not if they’re well-designed and adequately provisioned, which is just as true for federated platforms.
It sounds like you're arguing from a hypothetically perfect view with 20/20 hindsight. Scaling problems are good problems, solvable at the right time without the evils of premature optimization. Doing work without a need is wasted effort.
> It sounds like you're arguing from a hypothetically perfect view with 20/20 hindsight.
I'm just stating the obvious, which is that whether a service is centralized or federated has nothing to do with it. Mastodon would melt long before operating at Twitter scale, for example. (And to your points, I don't think that's necessarily bad.)
But, if there's any company on earth that should have 20/20 hindsight about this, it's Twitter. Post-"fail whale" era and pre-Musk, the service weathered far larger challenges without collapsing.
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#139Here are some invite codes. Because some people are complaining about bots to use these you should: (1) reverse the order of the stuff before/after the hyphen (12345-67890 -> 67890-12345) (2) add "bsky-social-" to the beginning. Here are the codes: 45whe-qoupi gmuxm-k6x3j tc30d-wwpjb tqunq-rtgar 7wecn-kfevc I won't be online to delete these so if you use one (or try to use one and find it's done) please leave a comme…
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Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anything can restrict traffic. SMTP has no lock-in and you can use your own domain, but Gmail could decide to send all your email to spam. Anything can just start ignoring traffic and not showing content. I remember when Google Talk used XMPP federation. Lots of people ran XMPP servers. Then Google turned off federation and only Google Talk users could chat with other Google Talk users. Unlike email, Bluesky essentia…
the key thing though is that the data that people post with right now on Bluesky is on ATproto, which can be migrated to another PDS without permission from your current PDS (bsky.social). so if Bluesky tried to defederate you could take your data and fuck off with it to another PDS who supports ATproto and bam, Bluesky can't do anything about it. the only thing keeping lock-in right now is the PLC directory, which I…
That doesn't seem like a mitigation to what the poster above you said, to me. It just means that if I don't like it, I don't lose my posts when I move. That's nice but it offers no guarantees in the face of a corporate actor harming the overall federation of a network.