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You'll probably enjoy Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
Do you know if they have any plan to stop requiring invites? I've been interested for many years, but the invite system rubs me the wrong way.
I don't think so. It's probably what keeps it small and more personal. There is also the notion of responsibility: if a person I invite causes trouble, it's potentially on me. Maybe not on the first infraction, but if one invites 20 spammers/cryptobros/venturecapitalists, it's reasonable to block the inviter too.
I'm not arguing one way or another (that's not my decision anyway), but I can understand why they do this.
There's a mastodon bot... but it's one-way of course.