I’m still amazed that people fell for that old ass artificial scarcity through invite links/codes trick when bluesky became the most popular shitter alternative. Made me question the sanity of some people i otherwise respect. Anyway, even if they made a less optimal decision they atleast left elons fucking nazi platform.
The invite codes were a way to throttle users so they didn’t suddenly get an explosion overnight they weren’t ready for. It’s not totally uncommon to have semi-closed test phases. I don’t see the problem with them.
This. I found the invite codes extremely dumb so I only started using it after they got rid of that. I’d love to only use Mastodon, but the reality is there is barely anyone there. I want to follow artists and artists go where their stuff gets seen by many people. Mastodon sadly cannot provide that at this time.
Was it artificial scarcity or actual scarcity? Bluesky is and has been orders of magnitude larger then mastodon and scaling to that size probably takes time. If they took all the twitter refugees at once it’s probably crash the server.
I’m still amazed that people fell for that old ass artificial scarcity through invite links/codes trick when bluesky became the most popular shitter alternative. Made me question the sanity of some people i otherwise respect. Anyway, even if they made a less optimal decision they atleast left elons fucking nazi platform.
The invite codes were a way to throttle users so they didn’t suddenly get an explosion overnight they weren’t ready for. It’s not totally uncommon to have semi-closed test phases. I don’t see the problem with them.
The people I know that use BlueSky just wanted Twitter without Musk. It wasn’t much more complicated than that and BlueSky has provided that.
Adding AI is very Musk-like so I’m not surprised there’s backlash.
So Mastodon?
This. I found the invite codes extremely dumb so I only started using it after they got rid of that. I’d love to only use Mastodon, but the reality is there is barely anyone there. I want to follow artists and artists go where their stuff gets seen by many people. Mastodon sadly cannot provide that at this time.
b-b-but it’s the future!11!
distressed squidward noises
You can’t complete the four stages of enshittification without the first stage: make a really, really good product.
From the comic
Was it artificial scarcity or actual scarcity? Bluesky is and has been orders of magnitude larger then mastodon and scaling to that size probably takes time. If they took all the twitter refugees at once it’s probably crash the server.
Intentional scarcity as a method of throttling the usrt base. For the reasons you said.