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Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by direwolf20 »

wiredone wrote: post #7
vladms wrote: post #3

Good they moderate. Most interesting is that they report a 60% increase user increase, up to 41M users. Considering how bad I heard "the other network" is now I wonder why so few. I have a look at Bluesky from time to time and there is (for me ofc) as much info/interesting stuff as I was getting from the other one before the acquisition.

there actually isn’t much good content on the platform in my experience. it’s just people raging about trump and whatever brand they’re looking to try and cancel next. it’s so far from the greatness of the original twitter. no tech community or content.

while trump should be raged about — in productive ways, ideally — it's not good content. nobody is signing up to see trump rage over and over.

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by frumplestlatz »

vladms wrote: post #3

Good they moderate. Most interesting is that they report a 60% increase user increase, up to 41M users. Considering how bad I heard "the other network" is now I wonder why so few. I have a look at Bluesky from time to time and there is (for me ofc) as much info/interesting stuff as I was getting from the other one before the acquisition.

> Good they moderate.

I can moderate my own feed -- the majority of people don't need, want, or enjoy an overtly paternalistic hugbox, and especially if moderation tends to be unidirectionally skewed in one political direction. It's not surprising that growth is slow.

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by pfraze »

direwolf20 wrote: post #20
gary_0 wrote: post #13

I absolutely do not understand moving "report spam" under "report misleading". The UX for this is terrible. There are lots of bots posting SEO junk, at a rate and scale that definitely wastes resources, and now bsky has interfered with one of the signals it should be using to combat the problem.

Maybe they're paying bsky. Occam's razor.

Occam's razor takes you to a bribery conspiracy?

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by frumplestlatz »

swed420 wrote: post #17
bakugo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people joined in late 2024, resulting in a peak of around 2.7M daily users, but most of those users ended up leaving soon after, likely because the site was just one big echo chamber of far left American politics around that time. It doesn't seem to be as bad anymore, a quick glance at the public feed suggests that the percentage of political posts has gone down, but considering how many times the word "toxi…

> likely because the site was just one big echo chamber of far left American politics around that time. The US does not have a "far left" in any significant numbers, and never has. At least not in a self-aware sense. Maybe you meant to say liberal, to which I'd agree. That's not to say there isn't a "left" or "far left" on Bluesky, but there's no way it's a majority. I agree echo chambers are a problem there, which i…

> The US does not have a "far left" in any significant numbers, and never has.

Bluesky does, however. Clearly they've made that their target market, but that's also why growing beyond that base seems to be difficult for them,

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by biggestfan »

pfraze wrote: post #18
uwemaurer wrote: post #11

Here are some independent stats: https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth

FWIW these are based entirely on the firehose, which means it doesn't count lurkers. Our logged in DAU tends to be double the DAU of record-creators

So ~3 million DAU? Would you consider publishing your own statistics?

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

wiredone wrote: post #7
vladms wrote: post #3

Good they moderate. Most interesting is that they report a 60% increase user increase, up to 41M users. Considering how bad I heard "the other network" is now I wonder why so few. I have a look at Bluesky from time to time and there is (for me ofc) as much info/interesting stuff as I was getting from the other one before the acquisition.

there actually isn’t much good content on the platform in my experience. it’s just people raging about trump and whatever brand they’re looking to try and cancel next. it’s so far from the greatness of the original twitter. no tech community or content.

I have never been on twitter so I don't really know but I can agree that we see tech community in twitter but the same isn't really there in bluesky.

Although I still have a web/programming which I follow and have found some people interesting from Hackernews and others too in bluesky (emsh,simonw)

What is the HN consensus around lemmy? I really like lemmy and think that it might be better for tech stuff (almost similar to HN/reddit you can say and federated)

I used to follow lemmy c/technology but I do feel like HN is pretty unique in its own manner.

Regarding twitter alternative itself. Maybe mastodon too can be an alternative.

Another minor nitpick about bluesky is that its 200 characters limits actually really removes the tech community from too deep discussions imo. Although I guess twitter had that limit for long time too until it got removed but now I do see sometimes some tweets which are really long (sometimes even complete blog?)

It actually really (pissed?) me off so much that I ended up making a tampermonkey script which can actually write a long message automatically and split a message into 200 messages chunk and post them in a thread of sorts you can say although its very hacky and messy and it starts to glitch around 10 threads from what I remember.

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by frumplestlatz »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #12
Xiol wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What topics cause you the most problems?

The kind of topics that were popular in Germany circa 1939.

Case in point. "Everyone to the right of Marx is a Nazi" seems to be the rallying cry of their moderation strategy and user base.

Which is fine -- build what you want to be a part of -- but don't pretend it's the neutral position.

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