Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week
www.theverge.com
There are now more than 14.5 million users total on the platform.
    • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That is actually an advantage. Centralized platforms are able to achieve larger audiences, increasing the chance that I will be able to find content I actually care about.

  • lagomorphlecture@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I honestly don’t understand why people waited so I don’t use mastodon but I did cancel my Twitter account literally the first week he bought it. It wasn’t hard to see this coming and I just don’t get the delay.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I still don’t understand why people even use Twitter or mastodon or blue sky. It all just looks like a Facebook feed to me.

      • Ĺįĺįţĥ ţĥę §ęŕpęŋţ🍏🐍@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I joined bluesky a year ago to check it out. There wasn’t much happening on it at the time, so I got bored of it real quick. It was like the original version of Twitter. The day after the election, I got on X to see what kind of shit show was going on there, but my account was permanently suspended. I was just on there the day before the election with no problem. I rarely posted anything on it, but I have made some left leaning posts in the past. Like, 2 years in the past. Kinda weird to suspend my account right after the election. Whatever, I was never a big X user. So, I opened bluesky to see if it improved at all, and holy shit, it’s bopping. It’s still like old Twitter. It’s open source, no ads at all, and they make it really convenient to find accounts to follow with “starter packs”. I gotta say, I love it. There are almost no fake accounts or bots. They get weeded out pretty quick. That’s become my new Twitter, and Lemmy is my Reddit.

  • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Impressive, since “network effects” are what keeps people on a platform. Why move off Xitter or FB when everyone’s on there, and not on the new place? Keep moving a significant fraction of a million people every week, and pretty soon, it’ll be where everyone is.

    My partner, who is very non-technical, signed up for a BlueSky as well this week: “all the teacher blogs have declared that they are moving over”. Looks like everyone has had enough.

    • marx2k@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      …or following people and interests you want to follow and keeping up with their updates.

      ffs stop gatekeeping social media

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Why don’t people want to use mastodon?

      Are they following rasputin again?

      Does Mastodon refuse to deal with its issues, like Lemmy?

      • LetThereBeR0ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Anecdotally, I joined Mastodon, found it difficult to find people who I personally know that were on different instances, kind of lost interest and thought kbin might be a better solution for both forums and microblogs all in one place, then my Mastodon instance shut down, and then kbin died too. Hence me being on lemmy.world, as default and stable of a server as there is here.

        Bluesky felt fun and familiar right off the bat, my only issue was that it was still so small when I joined. Now that there’s an influx of new users, many of whom I followed on the bird site, it just feels like Twitter 2, which I suspect is what most people want.

        FWIW I have a highly technical job and consider myself pretty tech literate, so I don’t think any of the issues I had with Mastodon weren’t things I could’ve figured out or worked around, I just didn’t feel incentivized to bother. I suspect they’ve smoothed out a lot of the federating issues I saw before, but at this point I’m happy enough on Bluesky to stay put.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Mastodon does refuse to deal with its issues but i wouldnt say that about Lemmy. Lemmy just has a very small dev team working off no funding.

  • troed@fedia.io
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    2 years ago

    We’re seeing a substantial increase on the Mastodon instance I help moderate too, but there’s no aggregate marketing department at Mastodon so we don’t get any headlines.

  • krimson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Everything is better than Twitter I guess.

    Is this running on a modified version of Mastodon?

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
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      2 years ago

      BlueSky is its own thing with its own federated protocol called ATproto. They have an explanation in their docs on how it works, different features. There’s a bridge between the two as well, a bit janky but effective.

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It’s a federated protocol, but the network itself isn’t meaningfully federated, and is basically just Bluesky (the company) infrastructure. Hopefully that changes, because until then, it’s still a centralised social media platform, despite the underlying technology

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          No, not unless the person whose posts you want to see opted into bridging their account.

          If both parties bridge their accounts they can follow eachother, or if one person bridges their account others can follow them.

          I don’t think you can see boosts of stuff not on your platform though, and I don’t know how interacting with a bridged account works if both of you are bridged. If only the person you’re following is bridged they definitely won’t see it, but I don’t know if that changes if you’re both bridged

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I think this is the crowd that tried Mastodon and then abandoned it when they realized it required a modicum of effort.

        • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
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          2 years ago

          This man ran into the weirdos on Mastodon. I’m over there hanging out with people posting about ass-pennies and no one cries “content warning!” You’re the one who decides who you follow and who follows you. If your hanging out with folks too sensitive for your liking, that’s on you.

          • Uruanna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            I don’t even know what Mastodon looks like and I don’t know who the guy is, but I’m just assuming he’s lying because it sounds like the usual “crazy pronoun libs” dog whistle.

    • 4grams@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Sigh, here we go again. I jumped on board because it’s where my friends are. Was pleasantly surprised that most of my old twitter follows are already there. Still, given the history I’m being careful and ready for the next enshittification exodus.

      I wish folks would just embrace self hosting and decentralization but we obviously love to make the same mistakes again, and again, and again…

        • 4grams@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          right now I consider my fediverse and self hosted stuff as my ‘real’ profile. bluesky falls into the same category as linkedin, a necessary evil for my ‘professional’ profile.

          So no, I won’t be leaving mastodon (or lemmy).

  • Krompus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I just made a new account on BS, I haven’t done anything at all yet, no comments, likes, etc. Immediately followed by a woman with an OF link in her bio. Is that not against the rules? How did she find my account?