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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 toomuchtodo »

cen4 wrote: post #36
owlninja wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only thing keeping me around as someone who never comments or tweets, is that there are some great local accounts (to me) like weather, police, news, concerts, etc... Any chance these move over? I'm not looking for some great community, I just enjoy timely posts I guess.

Its weird how all these useful local info accounts end up being dependent on platforms that promote noise makers and attention cravers.

Feels like there is a need for a message broker platform, where these local accounts can sign up and push messages out to whomever wants them via socials, SMS, RSS, whatevs. Buffer meets Svix for social/messaging PubSub or something similar vs Yet Another Platform.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

#92

Post by mrtesthah »

andreygrehov wrote: post #61
georgemcbay wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm trying to make sense of someone being as irrationally skeptical of the reporting as you are who also somehow believes that a screenshot of all things proves anything and I just can't do it.

BlueSky is a for-profit "Public Benefit Corporation". Let's be honest, it's in their interest to look as popular as possible to attract investors, partnerships, and users. Inflated numbers, if they existed, would be nearly impossible to detect from the outside. So why should I blindly accept these figures just because they’re reported? A screenshot doesn’t magically prove transparency, either. Companies can cherry-pi…

>Real transparency would mean regular and verified reports accessible to the public...

And I'm assuming you hold all the other social media sites to this same high standard?

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

#93

Post by sfasdf1 »

karaterobot wrote: post #70

My hypothesis is still that the problem isn't Twitter per se, but that Twitter-like failure modes are built in to that structure. A communications platform that has certain qualities will tend to become Twitter-like: Many-to-many, short messages, reposting, etc. These are mechanics that will just create certain kinds of behaviors. So, that would predict Bluesky having many of the same problems as Twitter sooner or la…

Not mean to offend you but many people have come up with the same statement. It is pretty cliche by now.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by antupis »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #91
cen4 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its weird how all these useful local info accounts end up being dependent on platforms that promote noise makers and attention cravers.

Feels like there is a need for a message broker platform, where these local accounts can sign up and push messages out to whomever wants them via socials, SMS, RSS, whatevs. Buffer meets Svix for social/messaging PubSub or something similar vs Yet Another Platform.

Mastodon would be perfect for these but there is no critical mass at least yet.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by tokioyoyo »

Nimitz14 wrote: post #9

How does it compare to threads?

The problem with Threads is, in my opinion, lack of funny people. it won’t be able to attract those users because what they usually post is questionable at best. And without it, it will always feel too sterile.

From what I can see, bsky mostly consists of rebels. And since users flock where everyone else is, it will be an uphill battle for them to get Twitter’s userbase.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by android521 »

karaterobot wrote: post #87
EasyMark wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never thought twitter was a failure until Musk introduced $8 “pump you to the top” blue check accounts, then that’s when the bots -really- moved in because they knew they could pump propaganda for a small fee and get far more traction than they every could by setting up bot armies that were easy to detct. Bsky will be fine as long as they try to control the bots.

I guess I didn't define what I think the problems with Twitter are, and now I don't have time for a long message. But, in short, I think that format encourages echo chambers, shortens attention spans, and rewards bad behaviors like bullying, cheap shots, ungenerous reading, etc. None of those are directly related to bots (though maybe bots are a symptom of the same issues). Nor did they emerge with Musk. That Elon Mu…

what you need is blogs or essays. But the audience has become too small so there are fewer writers

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by jauntywundrkind »

EasyMark wrote: post #77
karaterobot wrote: post #70

My hypothesis is still that the problem isn't Twitter per se, but that Twitter-like failure modes are built in to that structure. A communications platform that has certain qualities will tend to become Twitter-like: Many-to-many, short messages, reposting, etc. These are mechanics that will just create certain kinds of behaviors. So, that would predict Bluesky having many of the same problems as Twitter sooner or la…

I never thought twitter was a failure until Musk introduced $8 “pump you to the top” blue check accounts, then that’s when the bots -really- moved in because they knew they could pump propaganda for a small fee and get far more traction than they every could by setting up bot armies that were easy to detct. Bsky will be fine as long as they try to control the bots.

Twitter had such a strong home team of people trying to monitor the network health.

And they seemed committed to giving researchers and academics lots of access to understand and share how the network was working, look for disinformation & "foreign influence" campaigns.

Now there's no one at the helm and all the researchers and civic interests have been given the boot. They are being threatened by ExTwitter to the tune of 1.5c per tweet accessed if I remember correctly. These people were helping you but there's this sense that finding out what's happening is risky for business, that it could hurt, when in fact the network is just being overrun, turned into the maelstrom, and is deeply into rot and decay stages.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

#98

Post by thowawatp302 »

andreygrehov wrote: post #35
minimaxir wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably some internal dashboard using Tableau. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

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You’d 100% say the screenshot is fake.

I’m sure you could tell from the pixels or whatever

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by elfbargpt »

bhouston wrote: post #2

I can attest that BlueSky is really nice right now. Feels less combative than Twitter. I started to use it 25 days ago and got 400 or so follows pretty quickly. I am here: https://bsky.app/profile/benhouston3d.bsky.social I used this tool to find accounts that match on both platforms: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...

https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1856128159130812866

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Post by Everdred2dx »

minimaxir wrote: post #26
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.

I think what OP is suggesting is that this technical barrier artificial as it may have been helped foster community. I feel the same way as them!
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