Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X

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• maplebar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  BlueSky is really just Twitter pretending to be Mastodon, but that’s a minor issue compared to the problems associated with platforms like “X” and TikTok today.

  What matters most right now is killing off Twitter and breaking up the dominance of any one platform on social media. I really don’t care where people go as long as they get the fuck off of Twitter and TikTok. Mastodon and open platforms will eventually win out in a divided social media ecosystem anyway, in my opinion. Divide and conquer.

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Mastodon and open platforms will eventually win out in a divided social media ecosystem anyway, in my opinion.

    No they won’t, Reddit killed Internet Forums, Threads has over 200 million active monthly users, and BlueSky already has double the number of users of Mastadon and is adding 10 new ones PER SECOND .. Mastadon is in a distant 3rd place and is falling behind, quite literally, by the second.

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    • maplebar@lemmy.world ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      There’s a lot you aren’t taking into consideration, for example where those users are coming from.

      • Threads is just Instagram, it’s essentially the same account, so its users were baked in from the start. How many of those Threads users are just people who already used Instagram?
      • BlueSky really isn’t pulling users from Mastodon, it’s pulling them from “X.com”, which if nothing else represents a breaking up of old Twitter, which is good for decentralization in general. Any fracturing of social media is good for the fediverse.
      • Both Threads and BlueSky are, to some degree, copies of Mastodon in terms of their relationship with federation. Threads uses ActivityPub itself (a win for the fediverse, depending on how you look at it), and BlueSky has their own AT federation protocol, which shows that the ideas behind the fediverse are already winning out. It’s entirely possible that, at some point in the future, BlueSky and Mastodon learn to speak to each other using one of those protocols (or a new one), and then the fediverse wins by default.
      • Fediverse apps like Misskey are apparently doing great in Japan, which is great for the existence of Japanese artists and the international side of things.

      The fact that we’re here, right now, discussing this on the fediverse, shows that ActivityPub has come a long way. Bluesky is nothing more than a shallow copy of Mastodon with far less federation and far fewer features.

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This shows how bad threads is.

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  • DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Threads is honestly terrible. There are these asinine little widgets on Instagram that show you threads that people have posted and don’t show you the full one so you click see more and it brings you to the app store. But no one really uses it much, so you see a lot of things being posted with no interaction at all

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• thal3s@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I sincerely doubt 1 million regular people a day are leaving Twitter.

  We’re watching bot accounts be created at scale in real time.

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  • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think “leave” is doing some heavy lifting, but I could see plenty of people creating accounts as the site reaches a large enough user base to attract the general public.

    I saw a video recently of somebody talking about how they were posting the same thing on Twitter and Bluesky, and despite having a fraction of the followers on Bluesky, the post there had like 6x the engagement compared to Twitter. As they put it, “The creatives have moved to Bluesky.”

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    • reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve heard of people having similar experiences on Mastodon as well. Seems like these smaller communities of early adopters tend to simply be more active and pleasant to interact with.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You underestimate the news cycle hitting regular folk who so far didn’t know alternatives existed to twitter.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  3 more million needed for Mastodon, Threads and Blue Sky to beat Twitter.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How many does Threads have?

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    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So, you’re asking what’s the thread count?

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    • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Threads has 275 million.

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• Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The “pseudo” federated platform. If it flops they will just tell everyone “federation s*cks” but BlueSky isnt federated at all

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  • FapFlop@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Please don’t swear on the internet.

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Sucks” isn’t even a swearword! Are we jst going to strt censoring normal w*rds now?

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  • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Guarantee 99% of bluesky users have no idea what federation is

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    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nor would they care if they knew about it.

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    • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most internet users have no idea what it is.

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  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are probably right here in how news agencies and other competing sites would phrase it if BlueSky fails.

    Though what bugs me and logically does not make sense (to me) is saying federation is what caused or could cause a site or service to fail.

    Its like saying my new shinny website failed because of the Internet, the Internet must then be the problem.

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    • Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yeah i have the same feeling about it, but its like that buzzword AI. If AI company fails its always the “AI” but no one understood what AI did in that project.

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  • banghida@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then federate it.

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