Oh my god! That’s terrible! 20 million people!?
What have they ever done to Bluesky!? Why would Bluesky go out of its way to hit so many people!?
Bluesky hits 20 million users
Submitted 1 month ago by simplejack@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/bluesky-hits-20-million-users-143920955.html
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Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 1 month ago
Have you met people?! I’m surprised it’s only 20 million. It shows a near saint like self-control on Bluesky’s part.
Babalugats@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The urge to act like an asshole on another platform is just too much…
Twitter was a cesspool long before trump, and it was made such by the same people trying to distance themselves from it now.
“Ohh… I wasn’t a cunt on Twitter, I’m one of the people moving away from it”.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 month ago
Twitter, where the response to “I like Hot Dogs” is “Why don’t you like Cheeseburgers???”
nexguy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All that matters is the cesspool that isn’t going to make Musk any money
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Except on Bluesky you create your own algorithm. You’re not rage-baited by an algorithm that exists to “maximise engagement”, and although spam bots exist on Bluesky, they have virtually no reach.
spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Such a letdown, I had hoped that with the downfall of Twitter people would finally kick their addictions to vapid trash media.
Makhno@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I had hoped that with the downfall of Twitter people would finally kick their addictions to vapid trash media.
And yet, here you are
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Here we all are, not just you
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The amount of artists and creatives I follow on Bluesky aren’t vapid trash media.
Praxis@yiffit.net 1 month ago
Damn I sure hope they’re gonna pay compensation for all the users they hit
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Interesting choice for the thumbnail picture. That was pre-butterfly logo. That picture is several months old.
mosscap@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
The butterfly logo is one of the greatest things about that company, especially after Bad Man #2 decided to kill the beautiful bird logo. What an absolute waste that was.
tentaclius@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Tried it, still prefer Mastadon. The amount of shitposts or unrelated posts is incomparable to that of meta’s threads, but still quite high to my taste.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I just… I could never comprehend twitter (or Mastadon, or bluesky for that matter).
The whole structure of the conversation feel like people shouting into an open auditorium. And everyone is shouting at once.
I just do not see the appeal.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m with you 100%. The Twitter product has always been a clunky pile of bullshit for me. But somehow it became the default public space and choice of celebrities, etc and I think that has been 98% of its appeal.
accideath@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yea. Used it for four things. To keep up to date with creators I like, to keep up to date with friends, to keep up to date with a bunch of webcomics and to randomly rant into the void when I felt like it.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Yeah. I think that’s the appeal. You could just shout things and hope others would follow until a part of the auditorium would turn their heads to you. So, if someone shouted “it’s an Earthquake!”, and people nearby felt it and tweeted, implying it was true, everyone in the auditorium would know about it. Of course, other types of messages were send in Twitter, but most importantly, actors and robots started to use Twitter to plainly shout lies and noise.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Small notes to be answered rarely.
I’ve looked at the early Usenet archives, and typical posts there resembled this format quite a lot. It’s later that Usenet became a place where you write long considerate posts, and also expect rather quick answers.
It’s actually interesting to communicate in a rare terse format.
The reason I don’t use Twitter, BlueSky, anything like that is - I don’t have a scenario of it being useful for me.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I follow some economist guys, they are always sharing some graphs and chart data that help people to invest efficiently on the local stock market. Some talk to them and I follow the conversations as they are really interesting. But I don’t talk to them.
btaf45@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Usenet to me seems more like Lemmy than anything else. All conversations are groups by topic, just like Lemmy. Although they are all just “text posts”.
nucleative@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Me too but here’s one useful function:
Perhaps you are aware there is an ongoing event, say for example a football game, or an election, or an outage of your email service provider. You go to one of these “scream into the void” social sites, search on the topic, and learn what people are saying about it. Maybe someone knows what’s really going on, maybe some of those people have some interesting insights and you engage with them, not unlike you and I are engaging right now. Others can observe, perhaps contribute, and after the event has concluded, everyone goes their own way. Hopefully in the end the interactions are beneficial for all.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How are these interactions beneficial for all? What a load of crap.
stellargmite@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thats a job for ‘journalists’ these days.
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 1 month ago
About 15 years ago, I moved to a city where I didn’t know anyone. I joined Twitter because I like to try new apps as early as possible. It turned out to be a great place to talk about live music in my city, amongst other things. I met all my friends on Twitter.
At that time in my city, it was very much the town square that Elon wants it to be now. It was a place to discuss events in realtime; especially sporting events.
I suspect the advantage for Twitter was that you could communicate with people you didn’t know directly like celebrities, authors, politicians, etc. Not just write to them, but they write back because sending off a short message is much easier than making a call or writing a letter. Sometimes that is an unhealthy parasocial relationship but, it doesn’t have to be.
Kevin Smith basically started writing the movie Tusk in a collaborative way with Twitter.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I thought it was a great idea for official statements. Kind of like a new type of RSS feed.
Local transport companies can advertise delays, meteorology organisations can advertise natural disasters, police can post active missing person alerts, etc.
But it seems like it is just vapid narcissists thinking other people give a shit about their random thoughts.
CoderSupreme@programming.dev 1 month ago
In an auditorium with everyone shouting you don’t get to hear anything. In Twitter you get to hear what you want instead of what most people want like on reddit and Lemmy. I much prefer that to other people deciding for me.
Lizardking13@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love it for sports stuff. This player is out today. Player was injured in the game and out for the remainder of the game. Records, stats, things like that are great for these mediums.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Agree, it’s like I had a feed for reading only instagram/facebook comments. No, thanks
Botzo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Seems to me like you comprehend it perfectly!
I also never really saw the appeal. And I closed the account I’d barely used since 2007 (When it was primarily for announcing you were pooping and Lifehacker told me you could make lists with remember the milk) when the first buddy bought it.
I occasionally tried to use it for getting near real time news about things, but I guess I sucked at following the right people.
Now, with privacy badger, I never have to interact even when sites embed xits (if we’re going with xitter, then it’s full of xits, right?).
stellargmite@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Me too. Tried twitter way back in the early days of it. Never found it useful. Others did though obviously, which I don’t understand, but they did. What I find interesting is the seeming need to replace it with something similar. Why? Is it like gradually kicking an addiction by switching to something slightly less bad, but not going full cold turkey?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh yeah. Why? Yeah… yeah I could never imagine leaving one toxic social media and then trying to find a similar replacement…
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