Gmail also had so much hype around it, invites were sold online (I paid ~1.10€ or something on eBay). ~~Blusky, not so much.~~
I see a lot of Bluesky invites that have sold on Ebay today. For ~$20 too.
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Re:Threads, an Instagram App
by zimpenfish on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:02AM
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> Do people actually talk about bluesky outside of HN?
I see a bunch of people talking about it on Twitter in the context of "I'm on Bluesky, follow me there in case this implodes". But yeah, >90% of the Bluesky mentions I see are on HN.
Re:Threads, an Instagram App
by hyperhopper on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:01AM
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- Gmail had killer features that made even moving desirable.
- Email is federated so there is much less cost to switch providers where you can still receive and send from others. No stickiness factor
This is why Gmail succeeded and g+ failed
GMail's invite system worked because you could use GMail to talk to your non-GMail friends. G+ failed for many reasons, but one of them is that if you got in before all your friends there was just nothing you could actually do there.
But that had a compelling day-1 offering that was clearly better - massive free storage allocation. Bluesky doesn't have a compelling reason to sign up like that, so the invite system feels flawed.