oh nice. If this trend continues, they will be by 4 million tommorrow and 20 million next week and by summer every human on earth will have an account.
Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public
Submitted 9 months ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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bort@feddit.de 9 months ago
psychothumbs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And then onward to the extraterrestrial market!
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Disco Stu would be proud.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, no thanks. I’m good with Lemmy and Mastodon.
doctortofu@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Same - I was mildly curious to be honest, but not nearly enough to give them my phone number.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I had never even heard of bluesky before and also not really interested. Looks like another Twitter replacement, but I never really got into twitter to start with.
I saw the title and I was like “1987 blue sky studios is open to the public? The hell does that mean?”
NoRodent@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Goodbye Bluesky
sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Wake me when it’s federated
psychothumbs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s in sort of a weird intermediate space - it does have a federated protocol, but currently the main bluesky server is the only thing on it.
abrahambelch@programming.dev 9 months ago
Yeah so effectively not federated. Pretty sure they’re not actually interested in federating anyway
atrielienz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Do you want a mainstream corporate app to be federated?
tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
To some extent I feel like the inverse of this would be “do you wish Gmail wasn’t federated?”
newproph@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
whoever made that graph needs to learn how to properly space their horizontal axis labels
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
How quickly will it become s serious contender against Twitter?
I’ll stick with lemmy, but I’d love to bathe in some schadenfreude at musks expense.
psud@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Someone is already sitting on the rocketlab name. I’m only on X for space launch tweets, and was hoping some of them were posting on both X and Bsky
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Engagement :
“Hello world!”
“Hi”
“Welcome”
“Hi”psychothumbs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s the beauty of it already being a thriving forum before opening up to the public, there’s a lot of ongoing content beyond people logging on and saying hi for the first time.
Breve@pawb.social 9 months ago
While some may see this as good for Bluesky, I bet this is the floodgates opening to bots and algorithmically boosted harmful content. Good luck everyone on there!
H_Interlinked@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Threads default settings are like an open fire hose of rage bait and negativity spraying directly into your face. It’s pretty wild without some manual feed pruning.
Breve@pawb.social 9 months ago
I’ve been using Mastodon and it’s a pleasant change of pace. I’ve heard of some spam happening there but I think the lack of algorithmic feeds and responsive admins really reduces their reach.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
All the algorithms on bluesky are optional, there’s both official feeds and a lot of 3rd party feeds (and they don’t run on view counts!), so there’s no trivial way to game the algorithms to reach the userbase
Breve@pawb.social 9 months ago
Fair, though this is also where the double-edge sword of discoverability steps in too. Many people complain about the lack of it on decentralized systems, but centralized systems have a nice catalog of users for bots to message with little effort.
I’ll admit that lack of discoverability isn’t a perfect solution since there are other ways for spammers to discover users. E-mail is a great example of a large, long running, decentralized system that has increasingly suffered from spam since its inception due to mass data collection of addresses. However if you’re really careful about who you share your address with, it’s possible to still avoid most of it. I give out unique e-mail address to companies and spam tends to only come in on a few, often because they were breached or are otherwise “leaky” about their user’s data. Dropbox is by far the worst offender.
RedditReject@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s what I was thinking… Here come the bots
psud@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You need to register with a phone number, and they send a verification SMS to the number which you must complete to finish registration
I think that’s difficult for bulk bots
Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nah it just means you need to contract with a temp sms number provider. It’ll be difficult for your average kid in a garage to run bulk bots but not for state, corporate, and other well funded actors.
Konstant@lemmy.world 9 months ago
[deleted]psychothumbs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Meaning Jack Dorsey? He had some involvement in starting bluesky but is more pushing his own “nostr” site, and has had a hilarious arc of being ever more hostile to bluesky and its left-leaning userbase.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 9 months ago
Twitter was a publicly traded company when he bought it and Dorsey only had like 2% of shares by then.
CliveRosfield@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s not how that worked
UristMcHolland@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What is it?
psychothumbs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What is bluesky? Basically a twitter clone that was spun off as it’s own thing by the twitter team that was working on federation when Musk took over. It’s pretty good if you liked the pre-Musk twitter vibe or a slightly smaller scale and leftier version of it.
Bsky.app
nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
The name “Blue ski” very creative and smart
Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah yes another social media platform taking the first steps in the enshitification process.
PatFussy@lemm.ee 9 months ago
They have more posts than lemmy has active users. Nice
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
As if they didn’t learned their lessor with Twitter.
fr0g@feddit.de 9 months ago
I’m curious what lesson learned from twitter easily also applies to bluesky, as that’s genuinely not very clear to me.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
That going into corporate, VC funded, centralization focused and privately controlled social network is not good long-term idea.
Heresy_generator@kbin.social 9 months ago
I don't understand the categories' purpose here. Can't someone be all three? Or are they presented as a hierarchy, like "likers" have liked but not followed or posted, "followers" have followed someone but not posted, while "posters" have posted?
psychothumbs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I do not know the answer, source of the info is here if you or anyone want to look more into it: bsky.jazco.dev/stats
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 9 months ago
It could still grow even more as they haven’t opened registration to all countries yet.
psychothumbs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is that so? I haven’t heard anything about registrations only be open in certain countries.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 9 months ago
The signup form requires sms verification, but they can’t send the sms to all countries yet.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Blues Guy? You mean like B.B. King?
ctkatz@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
people are wondering if bluesky will end up like twitter. I’m not for one reason, twitter didn’t start going to shit until elon took over, fired the content mod team, and let the neo nazis, porn bots, and cryptobros run rampant. twitter before elon was fairly functional and useful.
when they eventually scale up I can see bluesky being what pre elon twitter was, especially with content moderation.
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s to be expected. What remains to be seen is how many of them will stick around after the initial surge.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Im more curious how many are bots made to look like its booming with traffic
airportline@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
idk. After they dropped invite codes, they started requiring phone numbers for sign up.
psud@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m one of those people, definitely not a bot. A friend with several invitations to the beta available offered me one a few days ago and then it was opened so I didn’t need it