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Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by dgellow »

jsheard wrote: post #94
sundarurfriend wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This thread (no pun intended) is the first I'm hearing that anyone uses Threads at all. To me, it seemed like after the initial week or so, there was only bots left on Threads, trying to hook people to the person's Instagram, or whatever other place they actually post content at.

Threads is the highest ranked "social" app on the Play Store right now, so a lot of real people must be using it despite appearances. Next down the list is TikTok, then Instagram, Bluesky, Facebook, X (below Bluesky!), and finally Reddit.

I’m pretty sure app stores rankings are regional. You should mention your region and device type if you want others to compare

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by ericvolp12 »

willcodeforfoo wrote: post #11

Love this kind of post! I was surprised to see you really can drink from the firehose: brew install websocat websocat wss://bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos ...haven't tried to decode it, though.

Give Jetstream a try instead, it's all JSON for you already:

websocat wss://jetstream2.us-west.bsky.network/subscribe

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by fsflover »

josteink wrote: post #104
fsflover wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you try Mastodon? Many have a better experience there.

Mastadon has a massive problem with furries, people with loli anime-avatars or people who fit the «purple haired» stereotype. It’s very off-putting and alienating for normal people.

It strongly depends on the instance. You don't have to read the global timeline.

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by lepus »

josteink wrote: post #104
fsflover wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you try Mastodon? Many have a better experience there.

Mastadon has a massive problem with furries, people with loli anime-avatars or people who fit the «purple haired» stereotype. It’s very off-putting and alienating for normal people.

If you have a problem with too many furry posts I have bad news for you about Bluesky

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by Barrin92 »

mrits wrote: post #50
threeseed wrote: post #41

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The facts are that Threads has 275m MAU and has been #1 on the App Store almost continually since it launched. Bluesky is now #2 and rapidly growing. The momentum is real and significant. And the world is sick of Elon Musk and US politics.

The facts are that the world is addicted to Elon Musk and US politics.

Twitter is quite small as far as big social media platforms go (about 300 million, largest individual userbase by far US citizens [1]). Compared to Telegram with a billion users and Instagram, Facebook, TikTok/Douyin in the billions the constant talking about Twitter/Elon and so forth isn't that internationally relevant.

No offense but it's mostly Americans screaming at other Americans about how important America is. It's a little bit tiresome how much headspace that site and owner occupy these days on certain parts of the internet.

[1]https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/number-of-twitter-users-by...

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by purplethinking »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #109

As a broader comment about Bluesky, it seems to me that it's heavily left-leaning, while Twitter/X is obviously leaning more and more to the right. Amazingly, it seems that the BlueSky/X dichotomy is another emergent manifestation of a fracturing and continually more polarized society. In my opinion, what we will ultimately end up with is two echo chambers, each catering to opposite ends of the spectrum, each radical…

I have no interest in being in a left-leaning bubble. I get both sides on X, so far. People think X has been leaning more and more to the right, but in truth it's just not being censored (sorry, moderated) anymore, leading to more right-leaning content. Leftists can't really tolerate any difference of opinion so they move to other platforms, it's sad. But I think they'll be bored and eventually come back for some more drama.

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by nightski »

I created a new account and the feed was flooded with anti-X, anti-gop, anti-religion content. Don't get me wrong, it's not that any of those particularly bother me but it doesn't seem any different than X except without the people I follow.

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by Pxtl »

jsheard wrote: post #75
nuz wrote: post #55

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Another argument is that it could lead to a bot problem 10x worse than twitters ever was.

The Twitter bot situation only seems to have got worse since they shut down free API access. LLM engagement farming bots everywhere in replies, hordes of scam bots replying if you use certain keywords, porn bots following and DMing everyone non-stop... Evidently the people running the bots don't really care whether or not you give them an API to work with.

Reminds me of this meme:

https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/w1ve97/virgin_...

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by msluyter »

testfoobar wrote: post #107
loevborg wrote: post #98

I'm part of the wave of users who migrated to bluesky last week. I have to say I really like it so far, which surprised me a bit given that I had been underwhelmed by mastodon before. I already spend more time in bluesky than in twitter. For those (like me) who don't know what bluesky is, it's basically a carbon copy of twitter circa 2015, down to an almost identical UI. Except that there's no monetization, no ads, n…

How does it compare to Threads?

At some point Threads started to suppress (or at least, not boost?) political content or news. Which sort of crippled it as a "current events + hot takes" Twitter/X competitor. Bluesky doesn't appear to have this limitation (though perhaps for some this is a feature).
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