No unkind silence was meant to be directed your way, good chummer, but you're asking kindly so I'll tell: I have five, all of which were initially offered to five friends; one turned down absolute (no future interest) two maybe in the future but not now, one was on BlueSky but couldn't find them initially and the final was given a code before I spoke to them next (in this friend's case it's often days, sometime more than a week between our conversations).

I'd not responded to your earlier posts offering your spare BlueSky invites as I had no need of them, but I did not mean to be rude and I apologize if I have been.

-2Paw.

well I'll get one if still available then.

*heh* My count is up to five now, and still no takers. Oh well.

I'll take one!

Is blusky for porn or politics, I can never keep up. Haha

It can be for both! Though I’ve found it far less shitted-up with politics.

I'm just not interested in Twitter: the Sequel. Fool me once...

But are you not on Twitter, still?

I deleted my account a few months ago, dear badger. I'm on Mastodon and loving it.

I tried Mastodon, and was turned off on how confusing it was to get set up. Went to Bluesky instead.

If you were a weremastodon it would've been easy for ya.

The thing is Mastodon and Bluesky are on the same open network.

Incorrect. Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol. Bluesky uses its own ATProtocol. They're about as compatible as Android and iOS, or hot fudge and Vegemite.

However...

I'm a Mastodon guy. I also pay about six bucks a month for managed hosting at Masto.host, which makes me the admin of my own instance. So I've got the environment I prefer on that side of the canyon. And yet my line of work is IT, and I know a lot of Bluesky furs, so I decided to build a bridge. That wasn't easy, because ATProtocol is hot garbage.

The link below points to a post on my WordPress blog which contains instructions on creating a basic crossposer with Zapier -- for free -- that will skeet all your toots. (Try saying that in public without snickering.) There are limits, though. Bluesky has a woefully short character limit, and the complexities of media attachments prevent images and videos from easily being cross-skeeted, but the system provides a link back to the original, full toot with attachments.

Try it if you'd like. It'll only work one way. Bluesky lacks way too many features to work in the other direction, I'm afraid. You need RSS to make this work, and only Mastodon natively supports that. People are having to kludge together their own RSS bridges for BS feeds, and they're vexsome things.

This is basically my answer to the BS/Masto divide. People are welcome to follow me on Bluesky, but my accounts are 99% automatic crossposts.

https://werebear.net/main/blog/2023.....ng-technology/

Probably the bots buying them on Reddit. Plus that's what happens when people are already on it or don't want to join it. Your invites just start piling up.

I'm kind of in Twopaw's boat. I got an invite, used it, and now have an account. Think is, I have no idea what to do with another one. I'm sorry these are proving so hard to give away.