Twitter isn’t the only social network around — here are some others.

  • Izzy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But can you even try BlueSky? I looked at the website, but it appears to be invite only. Which is a strange choice as it seems like it will prevent it from ever succeeding.

        • Blaze (he/him)
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          1 year ago

          Then it’s indeed strange that they keep the invite system while it’s a perfect timing for them to grab the Twitter userbase

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              1 year ago

              Since they say that all their content moderation is currently being done by two backend devs on top of their actual jobs, that seems like a safe bet.

    • Cyborganism@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know why people would join yet another corporate backed social network that exploits them and use their personal information and their content for profit.

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      It’s gonna go public eventually, this is like a closed beta kind of thing. The purpose seems to be more to get people curious about it and foster a certain culture which I must say that they’ve been pretty effective at. They strategically handed out invites to a lot of black twitter users for example, which is smart since black twitter has historically been an important cultural force on the internet

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      Facebook was invite only. The you had to have an edu email address. Then they finally opened it up for everyone.

      Exclusivity can drive marketing for a time. People want in on what only some can have.

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        Up to a point. Google+ was invite only for so long that by the time it became available to the general public no one cared anymore. When people signed in with their new accounts they couldn’t find anyone they knew, and they never came back.

        Really stupid on Google’s part, because they launched at a time when people were angry with Facebook for selling private user data, and a lot of users probably would have moved to G+ if they had been able to.

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          1 year ago

          There’s a number of things they messed up with Google+. I did like their share circles concept.

    • Brunacho@feddit.cl
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      1 year ago

      Lots of Twitter users I know that “want to leave” twitter are waiting for bluesky. It’s like there’s no other alternative for them, only bsky. I don’t know how long these expectative thing will work out for bsky. Especially now that threads is around.

      • Izzy@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Seems like a risky move. The whole transition away from old Twitter could be over before bluesky even joins the race. It’s definitely lost my vote in favor of Mastodon. I can register for Mastodon right now.