You don’t need an invite, people are already running other instances. I just don’t know what they are. But you can run it yourself, most people just haven’t bothered yet.
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Tsk tsk, Gleason too busy getting married to set one up the lazy bastard?
Even Jack has more faith in nostr, bluesky is just dumb. It doesn’t solve any problem fedi has.
My biggest problem with fedi is how massively complex and bloated ActivityPub has become, making less-than-superstar coders like myself less able to contribute. I'm not saying it has to appeal to the lowest common denominator, but the Nostr NIPs, and even the Bluesky docs, are a LOT more readable and encourage developers to want to contribute to the ecosystem more.
ActivityPub is a nightmare for a beginner to get into.
I'm trying to figure out how to run one right now. I see two main code repos, one in TypeScript and one in Go (signaling a lack of unity among the dev team already). Neither one really tells how to run it or what it does.
https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto
https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo
Okay, here's an early "awesome"-style list...Still not much info on what to do: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-ecosystem