apps like this always seem to get so much traction and then fall off within a week
i haven't heard a thing about threads for a hot minute either

With Threads I saw news media hype, Bluesky I saw to have social media hype. Maybe those are less distinct than they once were, but I will attest to threads being wholly worthless, being also designed to force constant incessant awareness of popular accounts' posts under any circumstances without any middle-man "algorithm" to blame. Bluesky at least has potential to be useful if people use it. Though mastodon is probably better either way.

Hooray. Jack Dorsey's 2nd attempt to corrupt the internet has slowed.

not necessarily; people may in fact still want invitations, just preferably from someone other than me.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10726736

the invitations are really flying on the shelves!

Remember a year ago, when Mastodon was all the rage and Twitter's days were numbered?

A year later, Twitter (though some call it 'X') is still around, but now it's "Masto-WHAT?"

I expect the same will eventually happen to Bluesky.

I have had better reception on mastodork as time went on, as annoying as its most cult-like adherents may be, while my twitter experience has never gone above a certain level and has been gradually worse across the musky tenure, and certainly not better so long as it has been called X (mostly by he who ordered the name change, as far as I am aware). I never believed it was "dead," though.

How can I want something if I don't even know what it is?

You say this is another Twitter alternative? Nah, I would never use that.

I can believe it! That is why I asked if anybody wanted my invitations; quite plainly plenty of people do NOT want them.

I've wanted to delete my Twitter account for years, but doing so would require me to sign in, and I'm not even willing to engage with it enough to do that. Last year (I think) Musk announced that they would be purging inactive accounts. My account was nothing if not inactive, so I had high hopes that my problem would be solved for me. I haven't received any of those pesky "check out these tweets" emails in a while so I assume I've been purged ... but I still can't be bothered to actually go to Twitter (aka X) and check.

Thankfully if I have ever received email like that it was not recently enough that I remember, but I am familiar with the frustrating arrogance of that sort of website, assuming that if you aren't using it, or are but aren't popular enough, that you simply need to be REMINDED of other people who are.

I'm holdin onto 5 invitations myself; I haven't even really been trying to give them out since it seems like most of the people who want on have gotten on

I suppose once it is able to go above three it is unlikely to go back down.

Aside from the periods in the URL, what are your thoughts on Bluesky? I've seen many invite handouts, and personally I can't be bothered to maintain yet another site... but I haven't actually checked it out/can't see peoples profiles since I didn't sign up in the first place.

I am willing to use bluesky if people are willing to look at my uploads there and or would not have come across evidence of me otherwise. It is even posty-birb compatible, which makes cross-posting less complicated than it could be; a lot of the "alternative" sites I have seen the past few years are not. although tags are unclickable on bluesky and just show up as plain text so I wonder why they get submitted at all.
I still like mastodon better, but I had to use that for a few years to no longer feel like I was wasting time.
I do not think requiring invitations and making pages invisible to the uninvited is in bluesky's favor. If it ever was, it isn't now. I still remember nabyn, and also that i never got let into it.

It is yet another surveillance capitalism based social media site.

I think any site where you can share posts across a network via integrated functions is considered social media, and thus would include bluesky, but I admit I have not sought any consensus definition.

I see some activity there myself which is promising. But yeah I don't think it's a game changer. As you said it's postybirb compatible which makes me not think too much about if it's worth to post there or not

dont think it wont have a dark side sooner or later. huge servers are very expensive.

Musk is a creep but nobody is banished from twitter for insulting him, much less required to sing his praises, though I can imagine him imagining that he enjoys unanimous voluntary approval.
I often forget how much advertising many such services (including this one) are saturated with because I generally browse them using standard internet browsers with advertisement blocking extensions rather than the annoying mobile APPs that they would prefer I use. I know youtube and instagram are especially unbearable about that and also constantly trying to stop ad-blockers from functioning.

I hardly follow anybody, and some sites let me get away with that better than others. Thankfully so far it is content to let me avoid what I wish to.

I saw your comment and I'm chiming in to tell you you're not alone. ;) I also got an account there out of curiosity / jumped on the bandwagon / IDK why exactly... OK, and now what? I'm not a "social media person" in any extent.

A warning about static caused by long fur, that would be about right... ;) In reality, it's based on a South African road sign "watch out for hyenas", which I turned into more industrial style.

I can agree to that, social anything has never been my thing either. I made an exception for Bsky precisely because it seems kind of niche. And I appreciate immensely that it doesn't push stuff onto me. My Lady is active on mainstream social media and oh my goodness, both the amount and the content of the advertisement there easily becomes absurd.

If you follow some very specific artists who are sick and tired of the Muskrat site, you will see Bsky there being active; you just need to pick the right profiles to follow and see from there which other profiles they themselves follow. It's usually those who tend to want to get away from the toxicity of some of the loud-mouthed ones in X that tend to be the most active on Bsky. I am NOT convincing you to use more of Bsky, but if you're getting the feeling that it doesn't look active, you might want to curate your feed based on the artists activity there; the fact that there is not specific algo running there means that people who don't want to chase after too many hashtags would find there a much more refreshing experience.

Tell that to them! The only people mocking the concept were first five who responded to me here. I personally PREFER to follow few accounts on websites like that, for I easily get annoyed when I see rubbish from those I am not following forwarded at me incessantly.

I'd gladly accept one from you but I'm there already.

I appreciate the consideration! The initial reactions to this post felt unnecessary to me.

Complainers gonna complain.

I've been on the fence about joining Twitter for the longest time. But I kept seeing people using the word "cesspool" to describe it. Really, almost more frequently than its current-official name "X" is used. So I took a hint.

When this alternative appeared, I was quick to secure myself a place there. Now what remains is to figure out what to do next... Most thankfully though, Bluesky leaves me in peace in the meantime and doesn't shove stuff in my face that I don't want to see.