Comment on Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only

• PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google+ did the same thing when it rolled out, then they tried to force people to use it before they cancelled the project.

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  • Doug@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In fairness, Gmail had a similar invite system when it launched and that’s been way more successful than G+

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    • wjrii@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Gmail was also both "federated" and an insanely good product compared to its contemporaries. G+ had a couple of interesting innovations, but it wasn't all that special and invite-only on a closed ecosystem is very iffy.

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      • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Gmail was literally the best. 1GB space at launch when you’d get a dozen MB in Hotmail and others, slick fast UI in a browser.

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      • Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It was ad free which was amazing for a social media site at that time. No banners, no pop ups, just content.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Gmail was invite only at first probably because Google didn’t want it to grow faster than they could buy hard drives. It gave you a gigabyte of email storage which at the time was huge. I’m certain they did that for technical reasons.

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      • Doug@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Might Bluesky be doing the same?

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      • geosoco@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It's also easier to find and fix bugs with smaller numbers of people, especially performance bugs which can be amplified at scale. So it gives them a lot of time to work through issues over the beta. It also gives them time to build teams around the expanding infrastructure and build processes for monitoring and handling issues as a larger team.

        Plus, these invite only periods start with more tech savy early adopters who more willing to put up with issues, and willing to provide decent bug reports to fix them.

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      • 0_0j@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “i am the choosen one!” As if…

        Boy, our servers are ducktaped!

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  • kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m still salty about that. Google+ was fantastic on release. Simple, clean, elegant, and fast. Then they steadily, systematically fucked it up. By the time it was cancelled, it had become unusable.

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    • evatronic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      G+'s downfall was they kept it invite-only too long. Demand was there, people wanted in but Google was like, “Nah…”

      By the time it was open-access, everyone had moved on or back to their old social media platforms. It could’ve been great, but Google, in typical Google fashion, got distracted by something shiny and killed it.

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      • wjrii@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The sad thing is, if they'd thought even a tiny bit laterally and leveraged the fact that Google Reader was getting a lot of traction and a core of people were beginning to use its social functions, they could have backdoored themselves into being Digg/Reddit/Etc. and had the social media userbase to take on Facebook organically.

        Instead, they fought the last war (Gmail vs Hotmail), intentionally eroded and then killed Reader, and with G+ they completely fucked up what was a cleaner interface (if not all that special) and a better technological experience, all while they were a brand that was at that time more trusted than their competitors.

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So, in the shape of a pyramid? Sounds like a good business model. I wonder if anyone has ever done that before? (yes, it’s a joke)

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• Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yup. I have a bunch of invites (for sane people only)

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  • Why9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Uhh… I can’t prove I’m sane, but a DM would be nice…!

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    • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This guy is crazy! Don’t listen to him!

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      • Why9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Welp. Was worth a shot…

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  • NuttyChunks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would love an invite if you have any left

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  • Default@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would love one if you have a spare.

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  • moitoi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I could have one, I’m waiting for months now. :(

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I requested an invite a couple of months ago when I downloaded the app. Wish someone would invite me!

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  • WillFord27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d love an invite if it’s still available (:

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