PhormTheGenie

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I'm a genie girl, who really likes being a genie, and really likes everything about genies (really)! I'm a bit confused, lost, and trying to find my way, but I always enjoy interacting with folks here. (Trans🏳️‍⚧️, occasionally NSFW, Be 18+ or please be gone.)

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Everyone's really going over to BlueSky, huh?

Well. Their limited invite process is a powerful weapon, I suppose. Not only does it I still FOMO by making people imagine they are missing the party, it weaponizes that FOMO by making code distribution go through friends.

"Hey, do you want a BlueSky invite?" Coming from a friend makes it sound like A) They want you to follow them to BlueSky, and B) If you don't, you'll lose contact with them.

BlueSky is bound to be a hotbed of all the worst of Twitter (and arguably already is), so I'll not be joining. But goddamn it makes me feel like an asshole when friends try to give me a code and I say "I prefer not".


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Honestly, when someone asks if I'd like an invite, I take it as an invitation to share Discord - since people tend to be less resistant to that - and to pimp out alternatives where I 'already am.' I'm not interested in being forty places, but thanks for the consideration; there's not a word of a lie there and it's a little more tempting for most to then check out alternatives, I hope.

I agree completely - The problems at Twitter were deep and significant before the current fool accelerated them. BlueSky seems to be just as much of an outrage farm.

I give some credit to artists, though. Artists and creators of every stripe seem to feel that BlueSky is the only viable alternative to Twitter, and I can't blame them for that. It's how they make their living, after all.

It really does seem like it's part of a dark pattern, so to speak. Like, to begin with, it was probably to limit impact of infrastructure. But later on, it becomes "That place that your friends are, and you aren't" - I've already seen people getting Desperate for codes.

And then, on top of all that, having a friend directly ask you to join is a lot more persuasive than the company just opening their doors. You can ignore a platform really easily, but when a friend tries to give you a code, you're less likely to ignore it. And once they've got the infrastructure figured out, the codes become plentiful that people are constantly trying to give them out.