@Thapsyrensays @eosfpodcast I agree about clubhouse, especially how awful the vc and crypto vibes were there. Bluesky does have a large population of crypto adjacent people but not nearly as much as clubhouse did and they're not the majority. Also agree about the tendency to artificially generated hype using invite code scarcity but in this case I think it was organic and was an unexpected surge in users causing them to throttle invite issuance until they could handle the larger userbase/activity level. An intriguing idea is that from what I've heard they plan on keeping the bsky.social instance invite only forever but be more lax about giving people invites once they build the tooling to implement some kind of web of trust or vouching system. (Of course other servers, once they exist can have whatever invite policy they like or none)