**Post by jay.bsky.team, reply to melc.bsky.social**

we gave out a lot of invites early on, and very few people used them. then hype hit and everyone dug up their old invites and joined at once, and hackers guessed a bunch of the outstanding codes, which were too short. we’ve rotated codes and tamped down on the chaos now

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