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When can I generate invite codes?
Is there a threshold (time, votes, etc) needed to generate codes myself? If not, does everyone just get their code through reddit?
Is there a threshold (time, votes, etc) needed to generate codes myself? If not, does everyone just get their code through reddit?
I feel like it was a while before I got some codes. I do know that we get occasional top-ups of codes, but I don't think it's on any schedule. Like I have 10 codes again, even though I gave a bunch out last year during the reddit exodus in that r/tildes thread.
I was part of that wave and got my code from /u/cfabbro :)
Kinda crazy that after all the hubbub the other side just went on chugging. I wonder how much if anything did they lose.
I really feel like it's part of the "switching cost", as I've heard it phrased. You see it with everything online now- the service you use turns to shit, but not only are other services only slightly better at best... You've also been invested too long.
Reddit, Twitter(X), Netflix, arguably even Facebook... Yes, their services have become terrible, but people used them for so long and there's not too much that can fully say "This service is better, so leave the other completely behind!"
Reddit still hates acknowledging that after Netflix got rid of password-sharing, the amount of users actually INCREASED. Similar story with Twitter/X- it was supposed to die out, but the takeover happened almost two years ago now and that service is still very active.
Yeah, certainly enough people could afford it after password sharing ended and decided it was an appropriate use of their hard earned funds. The longer these streaming platforms worsen, the more I'm investigating a Plex server. I just can't be bothered trying to keep up with TV and movies anyways, and I've always been someone who rewatches older loved shows and movies over chasing the newest shows.
For what I use Reddit for, there’s no replacement other than small, specific topic, old fashioned forums. But even that isn’t a replacement because those sites draw a small, old fashioned audience, not the younger, edgier crowd I interact with on Reddit. (To be clear, I use both. Ie ravelry forums and r/knitting, nexus forums and r/skyrimmods, daves garden and r/nolawns).
Tildes is nice, but there are very few people here interested in the same topics I am. There’s not many threads I feel like commenting in. I should do more to post and build the type of content I want to see, but unfortunately I keep running out of hours in the week.
Yup. I'm still on reddit, as well. I tried quitting for a few months, but I still found myself going back to places like /r/sysadmin for work or subreddits specific to my interests since Tildes or other sites didn't really cater to those interests. Various motorsports series, games, smaller political subs, information on the war in Ukraine, etc. By like November of last year, I was back on reddit daily.
That said, I do try to spend time on Tildes, Beehaw, Mastodon every day. Before, I was pretty much only on reddit. While reddit may not have lost me as a user completely, I'm definitely not as active as I once was. I don't use reddit on my phone anymore. I've given up most of my mod positions; I barely moderate those I'm still a mod on. I don't pay for Reddit Gold anymore. I'll never go back to the kind of user I was before APIgate.
There is no set time interval when users receive new invites, but @Deimos periodically gives every user 10 invites to send out. I think it's been a long time since they were last given to everyone though. So it might be time for another round of giving everyone invites, @Deimos?
While we’re on the topic, perhaps I’ve been too conservative in giving out invites.
It feels risky to give out invites to random people online lest they be spammers and I become on the hook for letting them in. What do others think?
If you’re manually inviting individuals, they’re unlikely to be spammers. Even if they are, Tildes knows how to deal with that.
The more likely “risk” with inviting random people is that they come, decide Tildes isn’t for them, and bounce. This site is still fairly niche. But again, it’s fine if that happens, no harm done.
I haven't invited single person yet and I'm here for over a year. I know a few people who might be eligible, but I also know they wouldn't like it here and cause unnecessary uprising, so no invites. I didn't have friends per se on Reddit, so no invites from there as well.
On the other hand I got invited by @OBLIVIATER upon asking him/her if I can get invited when Reddit went the wrong way. Thanks! I hope I'm doing my best to honor the unwritten and unspoken deal between OBLIVIATER and myself and I behave well and doesn't cause him/her any trouble or shame.
EDIT: What I'm trying to say is that I take it as my personal reaponsibility whom I will invite to this community.
I just don't communicate with folks outside tildes in a way that necessitates inviting them to tildes. At least not frequently enough to break my cross service anonymity.
I keep trying to invite people and they don’t want in :(
Have you checked that you don’t already have codes?
https://tildes.net/invite
I feel embarrassed to say this, but I didn't realize Tildes was invite only. Has it always been that way? I seem to recall just 'joining,' -- am I misremembering?
You probably clicked an invite link from someone, since your join date was around the big reddit exodus (same as mine). They were being handed out like candy around then haha