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

• 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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    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And you got more space the longer you had the account! Then everyone got the same no matter what. I was sad to loose all that free space.

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      • supercheesecake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Never delete an email”. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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      • wjrii@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        IIRC, that was rolled out as a surprise after a few years. People were just like, "WTF, my capacity is getting bigger?". For a while there, Goggle could do wrong from a marketing standpoint. That, uhh, changed.

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    • dan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hotmail was 2mb.

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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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    • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Slow roll until the infrastructure can handle it and a little bit of that “exclusive” feel to it since not everyone can just join immediately.

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      • Doug@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So more Gmail than G+

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah they’re working hard on scaling, they’ve had recurring performance issues but have managed to get it stable again even with higher load now

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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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