Yet another shitshow-in-waiting. I know Mastodon isn’t as polished but leaving one frying pan to get into another is a lost opportunity. I failed to convince somebody to move to Mastodon recently.
Bluesky now has 30 million users
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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#12Is this MAU or total signups?
total: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
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#13half the comments so far talk about bluesky being similar to x ie private companies.
However AFAIK the use of the "AT protocol" seems to me to be a major difference https://bsky.social/about/faq.
I am really curious to know how I am wrong in that.
As a long time X user and now on bluesky i can tell that there is a huge difference in the content which makes it clear that the platform was pushing accounts with specific political views (or muting others)
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#14Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#15half the comments so far talk about bluesky being similar to x ie private companies. However AFAIK the use of the "AT protocol" seems to me to be a major difference https://bsky.social/about/faq . I am really curious to know how I am wrong in that. As a long time X user and now on bluesky i can tell that there is a huge difference in the content which makes it clear that the platform was pushing accounts with specifi…
They all start neutral.
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#16Yet another shitshow-in-waiting. I know Mastodon isn’t as polished but leaving one frying pan to get into another is a lost opportunity. I failed to convince somebody to move to Mastodon recently.
In my experience there's a huge barrier to entry for Mastodon. I've tried finding a server that worthwhile signing up to on 3 past occasions, every time I found one that seemed like a good fit they weren't accepting signups.
Bluesky I got in before it was opened up by adding my email to the waitlist. Simple. And now it's even easier because there is no waitlist.
Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users
#17half the comments so far talk about bluesky being similar to x ie private companies. However AFAIK the use of the "AT protocol" seems to me to be a major difference https://bsky.social/about/faq . I am really curious to know how I am wrong in that. As a long time X user and now on bluesky i can tell that there is a huge difference in the content which makes it clear that the platform was pushing accounts with specifi…
They all start neutral.
They don't e.g. Parler and Gab
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
People don’t really care about decentralisation. Bluesky arrived at the right time, unlike Mastodon.
And it didn't involve a really confusing question as a barrier to entry.
Bluesky asks about which server to use on registration like mastodon.social does. For me the difference seems to be better marketing for Bluesky which makes people want to deal with the change and somewhat enjoy it rather than see every obstacle as a pain.
Bluesky does have some advantages like starter packs (and network effect now that it has so many accounts).
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#19You would think people would learn from their mistakes and not move onto another centralized platform backed by VC money, but here we are.
The first push was to mastodon and it was a disaster that probably saved X and might have contributed to trump winning all because of decentralized’s inherent bad UX.
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#20X's MAU has reached about 570 million. I just hope it doesn't collapse under its own weight before getting there. Do they have any secret strategies to sustain it?
How do you know that number?