Bluesky now has 30 million users • Hacker News Board

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by anal_reactor » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 3:04 PM UTC

bloopernova wrote: post #103

My experience with bsky.app is good so far. It's more like twitter was before 2015: I've had enjoyable conversations with a few different people, blocked some trolls, and discovered some new history books to read. The XBlock Screenshot Labeler moderation service has mostly kept the reposted screenshots to a minimum. When reporting a post you can choose which service to inform, so a screenshot would get reported to XB…

1. The quality of pictures is lower than on Twitter, which I was using mostly for porn

2. Blocking someone prevents that person from even seeing your posts, which means that from the perspective of a lurker, it's best not to follow anyone, not to engage with anyone at all, not to make anyone aware of your existence, because 1% of people you follow will block you just because they're having a bad day

3. The Python client makes baby Jesus cry

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by fatata123 » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 3:21 PM UTC

anal_reactor wrote: post #131

bloopernova wrote: post #103

My experience with bsky.app is good so far. It's more like twitter was before 2015: I've had enjoyable conversations with a few different people, blocked some trolls, and discovered some new history books to read. The XBlock Screenshot Labeler moderation service has mostly kept the reposted screenshots to a minimum. When reporting a post you can choose which service to inform, so a screenshot would get reported to XB…

1. The quality of pictures is lower than on Twitter, which I was using mostly for porn 2. Blocking someone prevents that person from even seeing your posts, which means that from the perspective of a lurker, it's best not to follow anyone, not to engage with anyone at all, not to make anyone aware of your existence, because 1% of people you follow will block you just because they're having a bad day 3. The Python cli…

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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by p3rls » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 3:24 PM UTC

Saw a bunch of people in my niche (music) on x.com say a few things about Musk and switch to Bluesky in protest.

They came back within a week after they couldn't build an audience.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by nasvay_factory » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 3:29 PM UTC

recently I have deleted my account. format is not for me, too much fuss in my honest opinion

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by ritcgab » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 3:36 PM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #46

ayhanfuat wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. I saw way more Elon and Trump posts on Bluesky than I saw on Twitter.

I saw Elon posts on my following feed (whatever X now calls it) even though I wasn't following him. I even got notifications for them! I don't really know how anyone can think that's acceptable.

Honest question - is it from a repost from someone you follow?

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by ritcgab » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 3:38 PM UTC

guelo wrote: post #20

hirokio123 wrote: post #2

X'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?

Elon said it last month.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 3:38 PM UTC

And with that, I think the door on Mastodon gaining widespread adoption is closed forever.

We had a very brief window when the Twitter Exodus was happening and non-techies were giving Mastodon a try. But it wasn't good enough, as far as giving the Twitter refugees what they wanted to see, and so they simply moved on to the nearest Twitter-With-The-Numbers-Filed-Off platform and stayed there instead.

There's probably a good post-mortem study someone could do on this (someone more tuned in than me, since I never had a Twitter account to begin with), and the larger ramifications for why many of the FLOSS platforms fail to gain the adoption they think they will when the flagship proprietary platform becomes intolerable. cf: the failure of Windows 11 refugees to move to Linux, Chrome refugees to move to Firefox, etc.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by buyucu » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 3:46 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #137

And with that, I think the door on Mastodon gaining widespread adoption is closed forever. We had a very brief window when the Twitter Exodus was happening and non-techies were giving Mastodon a try. But it wasn't good enough, as far as giving the Twitter refugees what they wanted to see, and so they simply moved on to the nearest Twitter-With-The-Numbers-Filed-Off platform and stayed there instead. There's probably…

I tried Mastodon twice, and got banned in both occasions for saying things mildly critical of Israel and Ukraine.

Mastodon's biggest problem is the hyper-aggressive content moderation on the larger instances. Speaking about Mastodon's tech and UI, it's vastly superior to Bluesky. But they drive people away and then complain that people don't come.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by Krssst » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 4:26 PM UTC

apichat wrote: post #32

Krssst wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

"Bluesky asks about which server to use on registration" No he doesn't ask, you're wrong. And there is no single one alternative server where we can register and interact with people on bsky.app

You're right, when I tried again the field was hidden behind a link. Last time I checked (sometime last month) it was a field that defaulted to bsky.social (maybe within the account name?). Or I could be misremembering.

In any case, my previous comment is wrong indeed.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by DrBenCarson » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 4:34 PM UTC

anal_reactor wrote: post #131

bloopernova wrote: post #103

My experience with bsky.app is good so far. It's more like twitter was before 2015: I've had enjoyable conversations with a few different people, blocked some trolls, and discovered some new history books to read. The XBlock Screenshot Labeler moderation service has mostly kept the reposted screenshots to a minimum. When reporting a post you can choose which service to inform, so a screenshot would get reported to XB…

1. The quality of pictures is lower than on Twitter, which I was using mostly for porn 2. Blocking someone prevents that person from even seeing your posts, which means that from the perspective of a lurker, it's best not to follow anyone, not to engage with anyone at all, not to make anyone aware of your existence, because 1% of people you follow will block you just because they're having a bad day 3. The Python cli…

1. Sorry for you

2. Don’t almost all blocks behave that way? Twitter’s always did. Seems Elon, in his infinite social acuity, has confused “block” with “mute?” Vast majority of users want to be able to actually “block” people

3. Baby Jesus cries very easily, he’s a baby