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Twitter isn’t the only social network around — here are some others.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they are still trying to damage control the PR scandal about the racial slur: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/bluesky-racial-slurs-banned-list-usernames/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've been invite only since before that, it's unrelated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then it's indeed strange that they keep the invite system while it's a perfect timing for them to grab the Twitter userbase

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd wager they're simply not ready for the sudden influx

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Since they say that all their content moderation is currently being done by two backend devs on top of their actual jobs, that seems like a safe bet.