"Why??" she screamed, fists balled like plump red tomatoes, face turned toward the sky. "Why will no one stay inside this delightful mind prison and slow-drip torture machine designed by Mr. Musk? I CHARGE YOU ALL WITH INTELLECTUAL COWARDRY"
I had to block someone on Twitter who got so mad that I mentioned bluesky and went on a rant about how we think we’re the cool kids at the cool kids table and we’re all a bunch of former jocks who made fun of the nerdy kids and after I blocked him he kept screaming about it for like 3 hours.
I mean I'm here because someone on twitter said they had invite codes and I replied asking for one and they dm'd it to me so like that didn't seem so incredibly exclusive/inaccessible?
Greenwald said shit like that all the time too, the idea that some of us no longer see the world in those terms because we’re in our thirties doesn’t compute
this is extremely funny to me because I don't think at any point in my life anyone I know would have described me as a cool kid and yet here I am riffing alongside the greats
I was literally a band kid 🤣 everyone here is a giant dork, which is what makes it fun. The science feed is literally the most popular feed on this entire website! He was just SO JEALOUS
I was a band kid and science club ER in school. In university, I was part of an experimental a cappella group called “The Vocal Treat.” Today I write about alternative cosmologies and impossible objects. So … obviously no dorkiness here. Nothing but cool.
I signed up for the waiting list super late because my stupid foggy brain thought I already had and I got my sign up code on Friday. They literally could have been on here weeks ago if they'd gotten their shit together when the waiting list first opened.
people forget that in the earliest days of twitter you had to wait for the almighty fail whale to let you pass into the timeline for the bird app’s few daily minutes of uptime
Being of an age where I needed an invite to sign up for Gmail and remember when Facebook was only available to people with college email addresses: lol, lmao, roflmao
Like, if bsky was invite only *forever* (I know that's not the plan, but bear with me), I still don't think her statement makes sense. Not everything everywhere has to be totally public?
Is she mad that she can't just hop into my Discord server, too?
oh fucking hell. they're deliberately ignoring what "beta" means. *every* communication platform starts off like this. every damn one, for a completely neutral reason. of course they can't handle millions of users right off the bat. they have to set limits while they develop.
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Invite codes are usually how beta software is expanded (I remember getting a Gmail invite in 2002).
Everything will sort itself out in due time.
[also played alto saxophone]
It is a cool instrument!
It’s literally to just keep the platform stable while it scales.
Is she mad that she can't just hop into my Discord server, too?
I am not the kind of person who will ever brag about being in the first 150k, but I will make an exception for people like her.