Bluesky invites

[Keg]

my handle is kingbigdog

[sancarlos]

Any trick to embedding a Bluesky post?

[The Sybian]

I think I found my screen name: INMATE NO. P01135809

[govmentchedda]

Any trick to embedding a Bluesky post?

Here? You can't as it's private, I'm pretty sure.

[GoodKarma]

Got a code and sent it to Shirley. Bobby 5-Sidez is on the clock followed by … turd Ferguson, Enoch, Sybian, rass.

I have an invite code finally…verifying this list is still accurate? BobbyP (Square Rob) up next?

[govmentchedda]

Got a code and sent it to Shirley. Bobby 5-Sidez is on the clock followed by … turd Ferguson, Enoch, Sybian, rass.

I have an invite code finally…verifying this list is still accurate? BobbyP (Square Rob) up next?

I believe so

[Shirley]

Any trick to embedding a Bluesky post?

Here? You can't as it's private, I'm pretty sure.

I think it's public, but I don't think our embedding plugin supports it yet.

[GoodKarma]

Adding Bob Cinq Sides here even though he posted in the wrong thread.




So, now it says one invite every two weeks. Maybe I misread it before, but I swear it said 2 invites a week. Maybe they changed it. Still waiting on my next one.

Merci mon ami

Sent an invite to you via PM

[govmentchedda]

Sending to Turd.

List is now
Enoch
Sub
Rass

[DSafetyGuy]

Sending to Turd.

List is now
Enoch
Sub
Rass

Just PM'd one to Enoch and crossed off the list.

[Nonlinear FC]

Sex Machine, check your PMs.

[The Sybian]

Sex Machine, check your PMs.

Thanks. In as Syb.

Found a couple of you by looking at following lists.

[Johnnie]

I have a code to share.

Rass, check your messages.

[rass]

In! rassele

Thanks.

[govmentchedda]

That's our list done. Anyone else who decides they need one, feel free to add your name here.

[EnochRoot]

In!

[A_B]

In! rassele

Thanks.

Omg! That’s aragorns alternate name backwards?

[rass]

In! rassele

Thanks.

Omg! That’s aragorns alternate name backwards?

sucarab wasn’t available

[Steve of phpBB]

In! rassele

Thanks.

Omg! That’s aragorns alternate name backwards?

That’s like the only piece of Swamp lore I remember.

[Steve of phpBB]

That's our list done. Anyone else who decides they need one, feel free to add your name here.

If no one else needs them, I’d like to get one for my wife.

[L-Jam3]

That's our list done. Anyone else who decides they need one, feel free to add your name here.

If no one else needs them, I’d like to get one for my wife.

I got my first one if you want it for Mrs. Steve.

[Steve of phpBB]

That's our list done. Anyone else who decides they need one, feel free to add your name here.

If no one else needs them, I’d like to get one for my wife.

I got my first one if you want it for Mrs. Steve.

If you don’t need it, that’d be great.

[travzilla]

I'd love one when another comes up, thanks guys!

[A_B]

I have one. Will DM the code.

[L-Jam3]

I just sent mine to Steve. Grow the movement.

[A_B]

Yeah I sent to the 'Zilla. Sorry I didn't quote that one.

[Steve of phpBB]

And of course two hours after L-Jam sends the invite code to me, I got one from Bluesky itself.

So it's available if anyone wants it.

[travzilla]

I'm in (thanks AB).

handle is Chambers30.bsky.social
I tweet about as much as I post in the Swamp, though. If I get any codes I will pass them on here for anyone else who's looking for one.

[EdRomero]

I was away from bluesky for a month and came back to see I have 3 invitation codes if anyone wants one (my profile is alanbp)

[blundercrush]

I have an invite if someone wants one.

[Shirley]

Look, I like George Takei, but his posts absolutely dominate my BlueSky feed. Like at least 2/3 posts are his posts or reposts. Anyone else seeing that? It makes it hard to get into. Maybe I need to Unfollow him.

Also, I have two invitations if anyone needs one still.

[rass]

I don’t follow Takei but definitely notice the feed being dominated if someone I do follow is particularly active at some point in the recent past.

[Nonlinear FC]

Look, I like George Takei, but his posts absolutely dominate my BlueSky feed. Like at least 2/3 posts are his posts or reposts. Anyone else seeing that? It makes it hard to get into. Maybe I need to Unfollow him.

Also, I have two invitations if anyone needs one still.

Samesies. (I only have one invite, to be clear, but yes on Takei.)

[EdRomero]

I basically just see Kilgore Trout tweets. My expectations for this app are fading

[tennbengal]

I basically just see Kilgore Trout tweets. My expectations for this app are fading

Not enough of the sports folks that I want to hear from are on it. Hoping that changes.

If anyone still needs on I have 2 codes apparently.

[Steve of phpBB]

I basically just see Kilgore Trout tweets. My expectations for this app are fading

Not enough of the sports folks that I want to hear from are on it. Hoping that changes.

If anyone still needs on I have 2 codes apparently.

I get a lot of Neil Gaiman.

On the other hand, unlike Twitter, there's no dearth of Darth.

[DSafetyGuy]

I basically just see Kilgore Trout tweets. My expectations for this app are fading

Not enough of the sports folks that I want to hear from are on it. Hoping that changes.

I wouldn't count on it. Things picked up for me when college football started going (I follow the Shutdown Fullcast people and that's about it), but there was no change when the NFL started. Most established sports Twitter accounts are going to stay there until it dies. They are not going to take the time trying to rebuild their audience, be it 15K for a Power 5 basketball beat reporter to 125K for a national NHL reporter to 10.4M for Schefter.

Until those media people have a reason to move, they won't. Too much already expended, especially with no clear second place to go.

[Steve of phpBB]

I basically just see Kilgore Trout tweets. My expectations for this app are fading

Not enough of the sports folks that I want to hear from are on it. Hoping that changes.

I wouldn't count on it. Things picked up for me when college football started going (I follow the Shutdown Fullcast people and that's about it), but there was no change when the NFL started. Most established sports Twitter accounts are going to stay there until it dies. They are not going to take the time trying to rebuild their audience, be it 15K for a Power 5 basketball beat reporter to 125K for a national NHL reporter to 10.4M for Schefter.

Until those media people have a reason to move, they won't. Too much already expended, especially with no clear second place to go.

But they can post in both, right? Why would they not do that?

Relatedly, how hard would it be to have a macro or app or whatever that posted your posts on multiple platforms simultaneously?

[DSafetyGuy]

Not enough of the sports folks that I want to hear from are on it. Hoping that changes.

I wouldn't count on it. Things picked up for me when college football started going (I follow the Shutdown Fullcast people and that's about it), but there was no change when the NFL started. Most established sports Twitter accounts are going to stay there until it dies. They are not going to take the time trying to rebuild their audience, be it 15K for a Power 5 basketball beat reporter to 125K for a national NHL reporter to 10.4M for Schefter.

Until those media people have a reason to move, they won't. Too much already expended, especially with no clear second place to go.

But they can post in both, right? Why would they not do that?

Relatedly, how hard would it be to have a macro or app or whatever that posted your posts on multiple platforms simultaneously?

Many accounts do post in both. Lots of what I see in Bluesky, I've already seen in Twitter because they do post in both. It's just copy-and-paste.

However, these people are doing their job providing sports info to the widest possible audience ("get engagement/clicks/eyeballs"), which is not going to happen to a niche, invitation-only social media outlet populated by people who mostly are there specifically due to their personal beliefs.

[Shirley]

I just loaded my home page. I can see 6 posts. Three are by Takei. One is a Takei repost. The other two are both posts that he replied to. So, 100% of my page is dictated by one account. I'm following 24 accounts. I'm not sure this site's gonna make it.