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There you go folks:

bsky-social-h3d4w-u6yn4

bsky-social-74bqi-vkmcq

bsky-social-n3fdq-46nxz

bsky-social-yippe-32vdr

bsky-social-l2fbt-xnscx

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Either people were really prepared for these codes to appear, or they are being scraped. Regardless, they're all gone

It seems a temporary, anonymous, private, receive-only dropbox(not the USB drive replacement kind) on the Internet is an unsolved problem. It doesn't have to be completely out-of-band like email, could be just an encrypted public reply by `cat | base64 -d | openssl rsautl -decrypt -inkey temp.key`, so long up to few bits(70 in this instance) of encrypted content would be allowed on a platform.

piracy websites were using base64 encoding for this purpose a while ago, but now it seems they moved on to a proprietary algorithm

Gone in 60 seconds.

Any more?

bsky-social-lbjkg-gcxs4

bsky-social-zigwm-f3qpq

bsky-social-2jlu7-apy5a

bsky-social-6ct52-4egmz

bsky-social-cy64m-53sqn

Maybe if you stop posting them with the easily-greppable first part they won't be so easy to scrape.

No one seems to be taking two codes I'm putting up without the prefix for ~hour, this is likely the case

e: second one now used, first still up

e: both used

I wonder what they're being used for. The UI doesn't expose it, but the Bluesky API will tell you who redeemed your invites. Open the site, watch for a "com.atproto.server.getAccountInviteCodes" request in your browser's network inspector, look in the "usedBy" field in the response JSON, and append the DID value there onto "https://bsky.app/profile/". Any commenters in the parent chain who got scraped want to take a look?

I get "$username joined using your invite code!" in notification tab that leads to the user profile. So far the user hasn't done anything.

grep "bsky-" internet.txt

Ya'll got anymore of that.

Any more?

Some more for y'all!

bsky-social-ge2mz-mfmpi

bsky-social-hykwa-x3ox4

bsky-social-gh4mt-2od6p

bsky-social-dejzy-mmcxf

edit: all gone :(

Snagged bsky-social-hykwa-x3ox4

4 more: (prepend bsky-social-)

7poji-p36pm

irn4h-ncvic

2hb2e-xhxnb

2k4na-5qiqu

And they are gone.

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