Now that I have a BlueSky account of my own (finally!), I can begin generating invite codes to give to people.

However, it seems that you only start off being able to generate one code every two weeks. Apparently it used to be one code a week, but trouble with the back end has caused BlueSky to want to slow that down to make it easier for them to fix. There’s also been the problem of people becoming able to game the system and put Neo-Nazi and racial slurs into usernames, which back end has been working as hard as they have been able to fix with some hiccups along the way. At any rate, when I am able to start generating invite codes I intend on giving them to my friends and other people who would like them. I’m also hoping that I begin to be able to generate more of them over time as apparently BlueSky users that don’t… cause problems are said to be able to do. All of this is new — at least it is to me, by the way, who got her own BlueSky code less than a week ago — but it already shows remarkable progress over Twitter, who is now letting two pedophiles (one convicted in criminal court) use their service with the convicted one ban evading multiple suspensions prior to Musk’s acquisition, so at this point I am more than ready to bail and network elsewhere the moment a promising social networking app or site comes up that allows people to do that.

One of my friends was kind enough to give me a BlueSky code when her account made another one!

I’ve only had it for a few days now, but it’s so much better and more organized than Twitter is (even though the developers are already hard at work preventing people from adding racial slurs to their account names).

CONTENT WARNING IF NEEDED: this post discusses pedophilia as it relates to the Twitter platform

The convicted pedophile that I have mentioned time and time again in here — the one that is ban evading multiple suspensions on just as many burner accounts, who has evidently had more than one well check done on him by his local police department seeming to explain why he is not as ruthlessly harassing people who do not want to talk to him — has a friend. To the best of my knowledge, this person does not yet have a criminal conviction, but the above screenshot is the edited version of what he attempted to send the fourteen-year-old teenage daughter of one of my friends. Fortunately for her, this Tweet did not actually get through to her because her father intercepted it, and he’s been in talks with his local law enforcement and legal counsel in his area. If at all possible he would like to press charges against this man because, well, given the circumstances, who wouldn’t? Naturally, as soon as this dude found out that his message had not been received by the intended target but the worst possible person — in his eyes, anyway — to intercept it, he panicked, deleted a whole lot of his Tweets, and deleted several of his burner accounts. Much innocent…

At any rate, this man is the second pedophile on Twitter to be mass reported for inappropriate Tweets, just to have Twitter do nothing. At. All. About. Them. It’s gotten to the point where this no longer surprises me.