Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups

Status Page, currently showing "degraded performance": https://status.bsky.app/

Here, take some invite codes and use them when the sign-up becomes available:

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If Twitter did the same thing, would it be spun so positively?

I've been itching for months for a Twitter alternate, and I'm not placing much hope in the members only waitlist. Whoever is funding them needs to open the wallets to get them to scale up asap, it's like they can't take advantage of these moments when Twitter falls apart.

I gotta say, I am disappointed so far at both bluesky amd mastodon. They both have interesting ideas to solve problems with technical means but mastodon wants to transfer a lot of problems to whoever runs the server and to the user and bluesky sounds like it might get popular a bit but I have yet to see something about it that makes regular people care about it. Both platforms are nice for people that care about elon musk and his twitter or fediverse stuff but they are just not cool yet.

I mean, clubhouse and tiktok are cool for example. What really cool stuff can I do on them that isn't a rehash of something on some other platform? What is the revolutionary thing here?

If it is just an alternative then good luck being mediocre.

Here is what I think would be cool (just my view): Do something like yik yak, location centric social media but also like next-door except better but not as a substitute but an improvement over twitter. Do livestreaming but in a way that is easily monetized, think cable subscription but for social media personalities, kind of like podcasts except live is paid but select recordings are free. And you know what else would be cool? What if there was a tiktok/vine like feature except! It was like reddit.

I am just spitballing here not to say my ideas are great but this sort of a new and interesting experience is what makes it stand out not being able to take your accounts or have some guy on a vps control your entire social media life.

I feel like they are trying to do the same thing differently instead of doing something new and exciting. Even the UI of these sites is frustrating to me. Honestly, I am sick of the web's UI entirely, this is like the future and shit! Where is the cool futuristic UX? I am still clicking on buttons and typing in the same kinds of text boxes and all that as I wad 10-15 years ago.

I am just saying, let's not be complacent with even basic things like html, js and css. I look forward to new tech not just v1000.0.99 of stuff. But I admit, these last two paragraphs are just me ranting about UX in general.