joeross⛅️meJul 3, 2023

I’ve noticed this. The first couple of #Bluesky invites I had went fast, but now I’m sitting on four and having trouble handing them out.

(I’m a little picky, too, and I’m not giving them out to randos. If we have crossed paths here and you’re not a weirdo (in a bad way), let me know you want one.)

From: @laurenshof
https://calckey.social/notes/9govj4beu5f8wkfw

Laurens Hof (@laurenshof)

#blueksy had 18k signups yesterday before they closed down registration temporarily for server load, which is 10% of their size in a day. Otherwise they had between 2k and 4k signups per day. Considering that the team didnt hand out extra invite codes, this is a clear indication that over the last month bluesky's growth actually was not limited by invite codes. There was simply a large number of invite codes floating around in the system unused. A catalyst was needed to boost their growth again

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Show threadgarryJul 3, 2023
@joeross @laurenshof interesting - it’s curious that Bluesky aren't stepping things up before the imminent release of Threads
Show threadVille VainioJul 3, 2023
@repeattofade it's possible that bluesky is not technically ready for real scale
Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Jul 4, 2023
@vivainio @repeattofade a cryptocurrency trojan horse masquerading as a social network not being ready for scale? shocked pikachu
Show threadVille VainioJul 4, 2023
@atax1a @repeattofade is bluesky related to cryptocurrency somehow? I thought Jack had "NOSTR" which was...
Ville VainioJul 4, 2023
Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)

@vivainio @repeattofade jack dorsey does 3 things: machine learning maximalism, bitcoin maximalism, and fascist sympathy. all of the devs on bluesky are from ex-cryptocurrency projects, the "distributed user id" spec they use was made by a cryptocurrency company and is never implemented directly because it's useless for anything else as it stands, and the structure of the entire atproto setup reeks of bitcoin brain.

when we pointed these things out in ex-twitter spaces, we got a TERF woman quoting jewish art at us to equivocate about dorsey's fascism, and a dude who told us, essentially, "i'm an expert in the cryptocurrency field and can tell you that the provenance of the DID spec's authors doesn't mean anything, least of all what you're saying it means".

Jul 4, 2023 at 7:01pmWeb
Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Jul 4, 2023
@vivainio @repeattofade but yeah, when a project starts off with "the very user identifier spec we chose is designed for 'distributed ledger technology'" then yes, it is related to cryptocurrency somehow
Show threadVille VainioJul 4, 2023
@atax1a @repeattofade ok. That doesn't bode well for bluesky then
Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Jul 4, 2023
@vivainio hence our categorization as 'cryptocurrency trojan horse' :)