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How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)

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Re: How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)

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> Twitter go boom Seems fine to me. Is this like the last 10 times twitter went "boom"?

> Seems fine to me. What did you do, go to the homepage for 20 seconds to make that in-depth assessment on something very widely-reported for nine straight months now as an ever-engulfing dumpster fire? It is not fine, take your pick: questionable leadership, wanton firings, bad policies, abuse/harassment, technical problems, legal trouble, fleeing advertisers

As a casual twitter user I've had no issues prior to last week. The throttling was the first thing that has impacted my experience since Musk took over.

It seems like your own assessment of twitter comes from a very emotional place and not from personal experience using it.

Re: How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)

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There are plenty of invites going around. I've been on Bluesky for about a month now and have gotten half a dozen invites. The thing that is, however, making Bluesky a genuinely pleasant place to hang out, even despite its size (it's getting relatively large for pleasantness!) is that the invite code system requires that, even with that large number of invite codes, somebody wants to see your posts . It is a pretty s…

> Somebody wants to see your posts Unless you buy an invite code on eBay.

I could’ve been selling codes this whole time?

Re: How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)

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They glossed over the bit where you sit around waiting years for a bluesky invite because you are not cool enough.

I have a couple extras ... Are you at least somewhat cool?

I don't know about cool, but if my username dot com is amusing enough to qualify I've been curious to check it out.

Re: How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)

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post #15
post #4

They glossed over the bit where you sit around waiting years for a bluesky invite because you are not cool enough.

I have a couple extras ... Are you at least somewhat cool?

I’d appreciate one if you still have spare

Re: How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)

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Twitter go boom, bluesky announces namecheap integration, threads launches, etc. Its currently relevant for those interested in the next stable state after all this dust settles.

> Twitter go boom Holding out for which one has the least baby talk crap

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Re: How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)

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They glossed over the bit where you sit around waiting years for a bluesky invite because you are not cool enough.

There are plenty of invites going around. I've been on Bluesky for about a month now and have gotten half a dozen invites. The thing that is, however, making Bluesky a genuinely pleasant place to hang out, even despite its size (it's getting relatively large for pleasantness!) is that the invite code system requires that, even with that large number of invite codes, somebody wants to see your posts . It is a pretty s…

If you happen to have another invite I'd really appreciate one!

Re: How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)

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post #15
post #4

They glossed over the bit where you sit around waiting years for a bluesky invite because you are not cool enough.

I have a couple extras ... Are you at least somewhat cool?

Would appreciate if you can spare me one. Been waiting forever for the elusive "official" invite directly from them.

Re: How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)

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> Seems fine to me. What did you do, go to the homepage for 20 seconds to make that in-depth assessment on something very widely-reported for nine straight months now as an ever-engulfing dumpster fire? It is not fine, take your pick: questionable leadership, wanton firings, bad policies, abuse/harassment, technical problems, legal trouble, fleeing advertisers

As a casual twitter user I've had no issues prior to last week. The throttling was the first thing that has impacted my experience since Musk took over. It seems like your own assessment of twitter comes from a very emotional place and not from personal experience using it.

It’s both, actually, so I’ll concede that. But I’m emotional about it because I’ve been a user for 16 years, it was the only social media I really used and got value out of, and that has completely changed for me as it has for countless others

Re: How to verify your domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for micro.blog users)

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They glossed over the bit where you sit around waiting years for a bluesky invite because you are not cool enough.

Yeah, I'm really not a fan of this sort of rate limited invite system. I think it will hurt the eventual growth of these services.
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