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Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by throwaway290 »

minimaxir wrote: post #13
Nimitz14 wrote: post #9

How does it compare to threads?

Threads has become worse over time due to a series of anti-user policy decisions (no news/politics) and a very weird Discover algorithm that strongly incentivizes clickbait (and said feed is the default on the app and cannot be changed)

Does federation work? Or Threads just doesn't federate anything into itself?

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by andreygrehov »

minimaxir wrote: post #12
andreygrehov wrote: post #5

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> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro? The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge." Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.

I read the article. When and how did Rose Wang reported the numbers? Over the phone? E-mail? Shows us the graph. The trends. At least something. I'm personally no longer buying the "increase in hate speech on X".

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by GaggiX »

minimaxir wrote: post #13
Nimitz14 wrote: post #9

How does it compare to threads?

Threads has become worse over time due to a series of anti-user policy decisions (no news/politics) and a very weird Discover algorithm that strongly incentivizes clickbait (and said feed is the default on the app and cannot be changed)

Also no porn, since Twitter is the only mainstream platform that allows porn, a real competitor would have to allow porn as well.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by dandellion »

minimaxir wrote: post #12
andreygrehov wrote: post #5

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> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro? The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge." Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.

I remember reading that reddit created fake users to make the site appear more popular than it was. AFAIK they never got sued. I doubt they're the only platform doing that.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by minimaxir »

dandellion wrote: post #16

Whenever I see an article about this or that platform gaining a million users I always think of the Eternal September. I'd like to see a platform where after a certain number of people join, a new server is automatically created and new users are redirected there, similar to how MMO servers worked.

MMO servers splits were due to capacity (both for the server and the player's weak GPUs trying to render players in a crowded area), not due to community. Modern World of Warcraft, for example, has removed almost every server-specific barrier and has strongly benefitted from it.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by _carbyau_ »

mlcrypto wrote: post #7

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What I hate about this statement is that "truth" has been wrapped in political ideology. The idea that carving a section of memespace out for a worldview now means that worldview owns the "truth" is batshit insane.

Truth doesn't care about progressive or conservative.

Truth doesn't care about left or right.

Truth doesn't care.

Truth just is.

The problem is when people don't care to seek the truth, and instead they seeking an in-crowd. Then you simply have uncaring mobs.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by KPGv2 »

yeahwhatever10 wrote: post #19
minimaxir wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro? The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge." Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.

How exactly would they get sued for this?

Publicly lying about your business's value is defrauding investors.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by throwaway290 »

yeahwhatever10 wrote: post #19
minimaxir wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro? The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge." Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.

How exactly would they get sued for this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/business/elon-musk-sec-la...

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by postalrat »

minimaxir wrote: post #12
andreygrehov wrote: post #5

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> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro? The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge." Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.

With the right script they could add another 700 million users.
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