I don't think they even have anything (note I am purely speculating) beyond a single ec2 instance at the moment. it's going to take a lot of time to scale the necessary infra to support the demand
So decentralized it can't even run on a second server yet...
I also don't blame them for being invite-only and have no intention of begging people for an invite.
But, the inability to check any post by people already there is absolutely unacceptable. Not being able to verify a screenshot of public figures is just a huge no-no in my book.
Re:Bluesky Frustrations
by rudyfraser on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @11:35AM
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That's on the client, not the protocol. A few folks have built clients but for some reason hasn't made this a feature.
All posts are publicly accessible though -- here's Jake Tapper's posts for example
https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?repo=d...
They have self authenticating data structures no? Someone should be able to write a program that can verify any post.
Yes, only a web-frontend client is missing, see someone else who downloaded all posts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35845504
Aware that your issue is the approach and the fact that invites are the main way of scaling this rather than just issuing random waitlists, but there is an issue about networks which I assume they are needing - i.e. users already on there will want their friends on there with them, as it is a social network.
The issue about creating networks of people that know each other and interact is probably pretty key to building a real social network - see how Facebook rolled out by college campus.