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They have over 1.8 million users currently, or do you mean PDSes specifically? Federation is in open beta on a test network, you can try it out today if you'd like.

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I have been on the wait list since they launched. They seem to mostly rely on invites.

It shouldn't be too difficult to find an invite? They hand them out pretty frequently.

I’ve some invites lying around. DM me if you want one.

I'd like to take you up on that, if you still have one going?

  bsky-social-scbch-eolha
  bsky-social-fs26y-d6gnv
  bsky-social-2lx5u-ntrdv
  bsky-social-hboq7-dyuue
  bsky-social-b2v3f-3a23q

Thank you so very much! :-)

damn, seems already all gone

    bsky-social-lkzsp-7x7ja
    bsky-social-p4vwr-nrthu
    bsky-social-bdu6c-6tbv4
    bsky-social-fkpgk-oestw

Got one, thank you sir!

Got a few invites, DM me on twitter, substack or masto if you want them (listing on https://bitecode.dev)

I have a few invites. Email me and I'll pass them out. :)

all gone

> They have over 1.8 million users currently

How many of them active?

Come on, "over 1.8 million users" is not an impressive number

These kind of movements makes me think they're not serious about scaling up. Wouldn't surprise me if then end up as an also-ran

Maybe not impressive but none of the services of my customers had or has 1.8 million users. And yet they do well (my customers.)

That. And none of the big social media platforms were big at the start either.

Yes but 1.8Mi at a time where people are longing for a Twitter alternative is just leaving money on the table

There are two usual strategies for growing: 1) low cost, organic and slow or 2) high cost, throw a lot of money at advertisement, saturate all media, grow quickly or bust.

The exceptions are those rare products that despite a low cost marketing sell themselves so well that their organic growth is fast and in a few months everybody use them.

Maybe Bluesky don't have the money to advertise or is not compelling enough. As one data point: I know about Mastodon but I think that I learned about Bluesky only today. I went to their site and there is nothing to explain how it works except that it's some social thing. I learned more by reading the comments here. Apparently it's being marketed at a very low cost.

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