Anyone handing out Bluesky invite codes?
I have a couple left but I'm gatekeeping them pretty hard since I only want to invite people I think are cool.
You mean you are *keeping* them? That's a weird use of "gatekeeping hard"
Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
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https://skeeet.xyz/?url=https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/po...
Not sure I'm going to click on something called skeeet.xyz, especially not if, looking it up, that's just another redirector
Skeet is how posts are unofficially called on Bluesky, from sky + tweet ;)
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#164Anyone handing out Bluesky invite codes?
If anyone’s got a spare, my email is in my profile.
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#165Anyone handing out Bluesky invite codes?
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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.
You and others in this thread aren't grokking what this means in practice: it means that users are transparently redirected to your new home wherever you are. If a corporate juggernaut tries to harm the network, folks just pick up and move their identity. The protocol bakes in treating the provider like a dumb pipe. The protocol puts the power in the hands of the users and at any time they can just up and walk away, defeating the stickiness of the provider.
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#167What is "Bluesky?" That link just goes to a landing page with no explanation.
Pathetic. This insulting post reeks of spam.
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#168Since Bluesky is invite-only and there's a lot of clamoring for invite codes, it's easy to think that you're missing out if you're not a member. I'd like to offer a different perspective, that most HN readers would probably be happier on Mastodon than Bluesky. In particular, Bluesky is very small, has a strange vibe, and has almost no technical content or people interested in it. The number of participants on Bluesky…
Mastodon will never take off because of its fundamentally terrible onboarding. Having to pick a server is incompatible with the general public using it. Bluesky is the only real contender right now. It doesn’t matter that it has a low user count. The main threat is that there’s no real incentive for people to run their own BGS. We’ll see how that pans out.
People handle creating an email address just fine. There's some terminology and UX to work out but it's hardly insurmountable.
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> 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 probably would, but Mastodon is now at around 13M accounts, but with ca. 3x as many instances as when it hit 10M, so it's increasingly better prepared for large user surges. E.g. signups have hit ~6x what they were earlier today but it's still only an average of one signup per instance per hour.
Great! I’m a fan and I hope Mastodon/ActivityPub continues to grow. I just wish it wasn’t prohibitively complex/expensive to host an instance with a few thousand members.
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#170Did they start fighting scrapers, too? I cannot see the contents of the link it asks me to log in.
By LinkedIn vs. HiQ -- if two things are both true then scraping is illegal: 1) The ToS has clauses in it against scraping 2) There is a login wall that enforces agreeing to the ToS before seeing any content. #2 is true for now, I can't verify #1.
TOS ≠ law