The fact that your whole community was insular enough to move to an invite-only app is exactly what worries me about Bluesky. It's just a bunch of cliques. Is that sustainable? We'll see.

I do like the technical vision, a lot. But I haven't been able to try it out because any time I felt the desire to look, nobody could actually link me to a post or a feed. So I never achieved the required activation energy to even look at it, nevermind adding it to my doomscrolling repertoire or signing up to the thing.

Opening up the posts is a good first step to sustainable adoption. Now next time people are mad at Twitter they'll have an outlet instead of being met with a brick wall when they finally get the urge to try something new.

Here's a few invite codes for anyone to use (maybe reply if you successfully use one)

bsky-social-exnc4-5h2qb

bsky-social-cocv2-coy6u

bsky-social-txqzx-nqhw3

bsky-social-h6snn-255ig

And a few more here...

bsky-social-yxngj-y5dad

bsky-social-fo32f-lz7p5

bsky-social-6txdl-ppkes

bsky-social-ihhnj-w4e24

bsky-social-3kidb-2tagv

All used. Don't try these.

bsky-social-brvm4-gwcnj

bsky-social-llyit-xx3kt

bsky-social-eeqkk-tf6qh

bsky-social-qttr7-gjh3i

bsky-social-qttr7-gjh3i

All of these are used.

Only got one:

bsky-social-5xbvh-kgbua

Interest has been low among my friends as most seem happy with Mastodon, so here are some codes!

bsky-social-jaixd-xof3h

bsky-social-fzzhr-3ow5j

bsky-social-sns4s-wnuwh

bsky-social-pmqcb-izd6n

bsky-social-bmgi4-bhg5p

all used :(

bsky-social-cqrjv-tsfgi bsky-social-xufsa-d6dvu bsky-social-cz7w7-ypiji

All used as well :(

bsky-social-gpoqz-2s6fo

bsky-social-k2vcy-bbcwf

bsky-social-4z3ir-rndd7

bsky-social-ug2hp-de3br

EDIT: all have been claimed

Got some more for all y'all!

bsky-social-te3n3-yx3ib

bsky-social-3rwal-hj636

bsky-social-mvjpq-mzusy

bsky-social-jtuoi-ktnlj

They're all used up. Womp womp.

I used the second one, thanks!

thanks, used the first one.

I was ready to move. You need an invite? I don't have an invite. Really? Yes. Here's my middle finger. Twitter/X for life!!

As I wrote in another comment, it's a clique that I moved with, yes. Related to urban planning, cycling infrastructure etc in my country. If anything, the move has been nice. No longer daily death threats from car drivers thinking that's a proportionate response for us advocating for a new bicycle lane..

Being a small group of course made the transition easier. Most of us didn't use Twitter to follow all kinds of stuff, just mostly these things.

And while being a clique, with no outside influences, can be bad, the "influences" you now get from blue checks on X isn't anything worth having. Just abuse.

What sort of community?

Cycling / urban planning / environmental in my country. So it's quite niche. A couple of hundreds.

But that's also how I used Twitter. An account specifically for this. Only ever followed or interacted with content related to this. So not using it to consume other content, write about anything that comes to mind etc.

Several communities have migrated elsewhere, some to Bluesky, others to Threads. It's great that there are these alternatives now