Bluesky Crosses the 15 Million User Mark (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/14/0017205/bluesky-crosses-the-15-million-user-mark
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/13/24295484/bluesky-15-million-users-social-media-x-musk
> The platform, which rests on the decentralized AT Protocol, added about a million new users in the last week. Bluesky COO Rose Wang recently told The Verge that the "majority" of new users flocking to the platform have been from the US. Meta's Threads is still outpacing Bluesky, having recently hit 275 million monthly users and growing at a rate of over a million signups per day. But Bluesky offers a very different experience. Both are ad-free (for now), but whereas Threads uses a single Meta-made algorithmic feed, Bluesky offers user-created algorithmic feeds in addition to its "Discover" and "Popular With Friends" ones.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/13/24295484/bluesky-15-million-users-social-media-x-musk
[2] https://politics.slashdot.org/story/24/11/06/0652209/trump-wins-us-presidency-for-second-time
[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bluesky-social/id6444370199
Its all the same garbage. (Score:2, Insightful)
What is the tech fascination with these nothing websites?
There's no new here. It's all just the same tired social media bullshit. Another ivy league hacker trying to monetize stupid people.
It even looks the same.
Will never hit critical mass (Score:2)
You hear all the time that some alternative Twitter/Facebook/Instagram platform is celebrating some million-user milestone, but then you check in a little while later and notice the active users steadily tanking. Mastodon active users have been in a steady decline for a while now despite huge account creations after Musk bought Twitter. I'm sure this recent exodus to the platform du jour is no different. As much as people want the echo chamber, they'd still prefer to be where everyone else is at. No one wil
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> You hear all the time that some alternative Twitter/Facebook/Instagram platform is celebrating some million-user milestone, but then you check in a little while later and notice the active users steadily tanking.
I'd argue that this round of sign-ups - coupled with the extremely high number of Xitter account deactivations - is the critical mass moment for Bluesky.
> Mastodon active users have been in a steady decline for a while now despite huge account creations after Musk bought Twitter. I'm sure this recent exodus to the platform du jour is no different.
Bluesky is closer to the "old Twitter" experience than Mastodon is.
> As much as people want the echo chamber, they'd still prefer to be where everyone else is at.
And these days, it's not Xitter.
> No one will be talking about Bluesky in a year.
If Meta hasn't completely ballsed up the moderation and FYP on Threads, that might've been true, now Bluesky has the momentum.
Threads is a ghost town (Score:2)
Until you can say you've grown past threads in usage, it's not much of a story.
Because outside of social media managers who need to justify their existence, nobody is using threads.
No surprise (Score:3)
Droves of left-leaning individuals are discovering X is no longer an echo chamber for left-leaning idealists
as right-leaning philosophy is no longer censored.
Thus, do they depart for the platform run by the very same man who ran Twitter before Elon bought it in the
hopes that BlueSky is today what Twitter was before it was bought out.
I suppose they can also head over to Reddit as it's much the same over there as well outside of special
interest subreddits. ( Reddit isn't terrible as long as you put strict limits on which subreddits you visit )
What is it? (Score:1)
What the fuck is Bluesky? Is it really so hard to include a fucking description? Seriously, what the fuck do you people actually do? Why haven't you been replaced by an LLM already?
Re: What is it? (Score:1)
No one talking about what it is. Basically it the Dorsey answer to the free speech question, a protocol. Anyone can implement it on their own site, build their own communities allowing any speech, then a separate level is reach, which lets them decide who they wanna federate with for shared content. The blue sky site is the first showcase of the protocol. YouTube the Pink Floyd video from The Wall for song Goodbye Blue Sky, (remembering the twitter white bird) to get the name.
Re: What is it? (Score:2)
A protocol to do what? Protocols are good for communication and interoperability. It would be great if it really does allow people to pull the content into other clients and other websites. And sort and filter any way we like and also use AI to interact with it. I am not anti-twitter or anti-X one but, but I do believe we should be using open protocols on the Internet for the most important ways we communicate and publish information.