Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week
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There are now more than 14.5 million users total on the platform.
  • lagomorphlecture@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month 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
      1·
      1 month 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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        1 month 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.

  • troed@fedia.io
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    1 month 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.

      • Jinni@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Thanks for reminding me of this app. Really wish 'open’vibe would be on Foss stores like fdroid though.

        Has 3 trackers too. Google Analytics, firebase, and sentry.

        Edit: Downloaded it and it is pretty cool but I wish it had more support for bluesky feeds. It supports the ones I already have but I can’t search for more.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

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

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          1 month ago

          wtf kind of lame criticism of mastodon is this…there are constantly cute pictures of pets being posted on mastodon… and like anywhere else with humans these posts are very popular on mastodon.

          I would say these posts are MORE popular on mastodon because without an algorithm cute animal photos are going to stick out as popular even more.

          This is all nonsense anyways, Bluesky is considered “cooler” by techy types with a childlike awareness of history, politics and power because the tech is cooler when considered in the abstract.

          Coincidently none of these technical details have the capacity to make bluesky a truly open and free place otherwise those investors would sue bluesky for purposefully and willfully not pursuing profit for shareholders. This won’t stop certain types from pointing at pictures in the sand and reciting idle words thrown to the wind by the people in charge for now.

          Bluesky exists as a legal instrument of profit, all else about bluesky is malleable and changeable and will eventually be bulldozed or undermined in the pursuit of profit for shareholders.

          edit 2 this is a real human, and I was grumpy and while it was satisfying to point fingers it just makes me into the asshole so I removed that, but my broader point still stands

        • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
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          1 month 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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            1 month 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.

        • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          This smug attitude is why the fediverse will stay niche. People get jobs from twitter and Bluesky showing their posts to people. Its why im on the platforms as an artist. But sure lets talk shit at everyone who doesnt want to post to the void on mastodon.

          Also your feed is chronological by default on bluesky and you can stay chronological and enable some posts from your custom feeds to show in your chronological feed. Best of both worlds

          • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            1 month ago

            There’s a lot of artists selling stuff on Mastodon but I don’t think you can have a job as a mastodon influencer

          • timconspicuous@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Seriously, I’m so tired of this “we on Mastodon are the Eloi and they on Bluesky are the Morlocks” type bs, that kind of hostility to regular users makes me not want to be on the Fediverse at all.

            • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
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              1 month ago

              It’s a problem in the open source community as a whole. People ask for it to be a little easier because they’re not super skilled with tech and then the reaction is “if your so dumb you cant use this then maybe you shouldnt use it” or something to that extent

  • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 month 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.

    • 4grams@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month 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…

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Decentralization is a bit like showing people “Here’s how to make friends. I won’t actually introduce you to anyone, though.” I kind of want to at least get a starting point off a general topic.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Why don’t people want to use mastodon?

      Are they following rasputin again?

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

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    An even better alternative is to replace it with nothing. The Twitter-like messaging paradigm is only good for trivia and rumor-mongering.

    • marx2k@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

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

      ffs stop gatekeeping social media

        • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Yeah but no. It’s not an RSS feed per se. It’s researchers sharing what they publish and what other publish with ints or resumes sometimes. Then people would comment and researchers reply.

  • krimson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 month 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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      1 month 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.

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month 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

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 month 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

        • RBG@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          1 month ago

          They have no reason to change that. They will long term want the exact same thing that twitter has, access to all user data and control of the platform.