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.
    • Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I am always a little surprised that everyone is surprised as if people are intentionally avoiding Mastodon.

      I like Mastodon but it is empty by comparison to BlueSky people want a social media app where there are people to talk to on quantities. BlueSky is also user friendly by comparison, IMO. Easier to setup.

      “Well Mastodon would be busier if people would stop going anywhere else.”

      No one is avoiding Mastodon I think it is odd it has never occurred to anyone that BlueSky is talked about way more. I had never heard Mastodon before Lemmy but I saw talks of BlueSky everywhere.

  • troed@fedia.io
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    14 days 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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        13 days 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.

      • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Thanks for letting me know about this. Just installed it. Now if they supported multiple mastodon accounts, I’d really be cooking.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

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

      • mke@programming.devEnglish
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        13 days ago

        I doubt this sort of attitude helps, too. Mastodon developers know at least some of its failings. Migrating to Bluesky is not effortless.

        • Sabata@ani.socialEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Being complicated will keep the Facebook moms, and my casually racist uncle away.

        • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
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          13 days 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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            12 days 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.

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          13 days 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

    • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I just learned that before their fundraising round Bluesky called themselves a “public benefit LLC” and I thought thats nice of them to benefit the public 😅 , then I found out about US corporate law and what it actually means…

  • lagomorphlecture@lemm.eeEnglish
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    13 days 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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      13 days 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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        13 days 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.

  • Krompus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days 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?

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    eh it is good to leave that shit hole behind but Elon already got very high returns from his investment on Shitter (got his daddy elected) so it’s too late.

    • nao@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Mastodon or Lemmy, because you would have to choose an instance and a client. Threads, because why would you?

  • krimson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Everything is better than Twitter I guess.

    Is this running on a modified version of Mastodon?

          • nexguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            13 days ago

            So you are of the opinion that the bluesky devs are currently lying about working to get it federated?

        • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Thats an advantage so thin it is almost invisible. Its a centralized platform, it could be bought by Elon or shutdown for whatever reason at any second. Being this shortsighted about the future of global communications systems is not a great idea when Trump is about to take office.

      • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Maybe offtopic, but does anyone has a good guide on how to join Mastodon? I’m still trying to find a good instance.

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          13 days ago

          The best guide isn’t written down: don’t be afraid to try a few instances until you find one you like!

          Once you’re on Mastodon and following people, you’ll start to notice the servers and gravitate towards the ones you like.

          I would advise against mastodon.social since it is the biggest and also has some problems with moderation. But some people like it, so maybe it is good enough also.

          To choose a server, check out https://fedi.tips/which-server-should-i-join-how-do-i-find-out-more-about-a-server/

          The fedi.tips account also posts a lot of helpful tips and themed lists of accounts to follow/discover so I recommend following them too!

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
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      14 days 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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        14 days 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

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      13 days 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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        13 days 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.

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.caEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Bluesky was started by the same nazi who sold twitter to elon… I will not ever be using bluesky… Threads was started by the same nazi that owns facebook so I will not ever be using threads…