Bluesky an' clear: the social media app that will definitely last forever

I'm not nominally responsible enough to give a fuck about this platform or any of the people on it, anything online where you need invites to access it is for wankers, apart from private torrent sites - I don't make the rules.

I'd never lower myself to ask for a fucking invite code and then get precious about who you are going to give them to. Ohh can't have any riff raff here. It's a site for snobby supercilious wankers - lol, even worse than this one!

aww

Haha, funny posts. To be fair to them though, it costs a lot of money and takes a lot of infrastructure for a site like Twitter/Bluesky to run – as it is whenever there is a flood of new people the site starts to stop loading posts etc.

Yeah, it is notably sluggish at the best of times.

Lotta placeholder accounts there right now with virtually no activity (including Tracer's, lol). I often can't tell if they are squatters trying to steal/scam the handle or legit mirrors of their twitter accounts.

I don't know anything about this app other than I agree it is pronounced like brewski

i'm still trying to "find my voice" josh

also need to settle on my bio, something like "Flâneur. Appreciator of gin. #fuck2017."

ok, so a few months back i added my email to the waiting list.
i got my code today so signed up.
how is it within a few hours i have several followers that i have no connection with !?
i mean, i have done no promo.
is there something about this place that i have yet to understand, or is it cos the first thing i did was follow ned ?!

There's probably a bunch of possibilities, but most likely is that someone from those accounts is just friending other people's follower list. It's a little less mysterious when you follow an account that posts about something specific, like if you follow a Nat'l Park account and suddenly you have five new follower accounts that are into parks, travel, etc.

Did you post yet? There are a bunch of feeds of peoples first posts that real users glance at. If you didn’t post it’s probably just bots. The network is small enough that there are still accounts that follow spam every newly created account.

A super kind ilxor threw me an invite—right here on The Aorta, WXOR!

But a scammy scammer stoled it afores i could snag it, and ay, no way i’m axing y’all again. I can’t do with that nonsense and guilt.

But someday I’ll git there, an if i ask to follow u, pls folla back ha

bsky-social-xbnsk-jzcyl

https://bsky.app/profile/restaurant-bot.bsky.social

lagoon, this not you?

nope, they do credit me in the description tho lol, more power to em good to see the capital snack bar again

Does anyone want an invite still? Here's a code

bsky-social-ncfr6-pgyzh

Claimed. Thanks, Alba!

Code: bsky-social-s3rme-hua2n

thx Jordan

bsky-social-tkdte-hji7y

hello I am on this app now

if you get a new follower it may be me

I also made an account at centuriesofsound . bsky . social
because why not eh?

mh what's your handle dawg

firstnamelastname

Invite:

bsky-social-eotk7-243jh

I kind of forgot that I signed up to the waiting list for this until I got my invite just now, I guess I'm on this now. I'm @eatmorefish, I am unlikely to post much or at all, so not much point following me I guess.

This is ridiculously slow right now, nearly unusable. Will check back in a couple of days or weeks.

yeah it's even slower than usual today

The theory is that a lot of people are trying to shift over because Twitter is going to do away with the block function.

some more invite codes

bsky-social-d73rk-rrf55
bsky-social-nimxr-t7o2n

site seems to be working fine atm

It ALWAYS seems slow.

Can someone flick one to me on webmail? I think mine still works.

I dm'ed you at facespace

i am dubdobdee if you can bear to subject yrself to my usual nonsense

I got it JF thanks! xx

if there are any going spare i’ll take one via ilx mail as well. enough people over there now to make it slightly annoying. plus it’s of great importance to sustaining the fizzles brand obv.

ilxmailed you Fizzles

Sent one

I have a couple more going too.

xp

just saw a bunch of people responding to a fake CBC News image, even labelled as such in the alt text. I think this app might have what it takes after all

thanks both!

It ALWAYS seems slow.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 19 August 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Especially when Musk announces a new feature lol

That might be the biggest problem with Bluesky, we'll see..

A post I read on bk just now is coming up with a figure of 600k so I am not sure how feasible it is.

i am on here and im enjoying the skeets

imo network effects of twitter are too strong (and generally useful/valuable obv), and they’ll prob gradually break down and deteriorate in crappy ways, but be v difficult to reconstitute elsewhere. things will just get generally worse in terms of social media usability. idk maybe that’s better in some way too.

definitely need a place where high profile people say and do things that wouldn’t be out of place in a playground tho.

yeah kinda doubt well ever see big posting sites like facebook-twitter-instagram again, insta has already turned into something more like tiktok or youtube a content consumption place

it’s a shopping app

I tell you one thing I already love over twitter is the customisable feeds. I immediately snapped up the "onlyPosts" feed.

if anyone has a spare code they’re willing to give me i’d be very appreciative. my ilx mail should still work, i think

sent via ilx mail!