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Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by xboxnolifes »

nicce wrote: post #96
ksenzee wrote: post #37

The infrastructure has been rock-solid. I’ve never seen a service grow this fast without any noticeable outages. The architecture and execution are obviously informed by serious experience at Twitter, but it’s also clear that management is giving them everything they need to do the job right.

> The infrastructure has been rock-solid. I’ve never seen a service grow this fast without any noticeable outages. The architecture and execution are obviously informed by serious experience at Twitter, but it’s also clear that management is giving them everything they need to do the job right. The world has changed quite bit. If you have deep pockets and you can use AWS etc., it isn't a major problem anymore. Howeve…

I'm not so sure about this when not even 24 hours ago Netflix has streaming issues running on AWS infrastructure, and existing social media sites still have outages.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by sumeno »

skywhopper wrote: post #45
NAHWheatCracker wrote: post #15

As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media. One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.

People talk about what’s on their minds. Most of the users just moved in the past week or two so that’s the hot topic. But it’ll change soon enough.

This, it happens for a while after every big exodus moment and chills out after.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by stubish »

jsheard wrote: post #63
James_K wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of Brazilians there. I guess it makes sense that they are a large portion of the user-base after Twitter got banned.

I wonder what the backstory to two different Brazilian Taylor Swift fan accounts getting onto the most blocked list is...

Probably no fault of the feed, so not really a hall of shame. People you follow repost the feeds because they want to share with the world, and the posts end up in your timeline. You block them if you are not interested or if it is overwhelming, without having to unfollow anyone.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by Zak »

ericjmorey wrote: post #84
m3kw9 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why isn't mastodon one of the winners like bluesky?

Its fundamental design lacks the ability to provide features that many people want, because the developers see those features as anti-features to be avoided. Bluesky's AT Protocol was developed specifically to address what they saw as shortcomings with the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon and other similar services.

It's fundamentally reasonably capable of things like full text search and better discovery, which its lead dev and much of the community see as anti-features. There has been some recent progress on search, but being searchable is opt-in only because many users are opposed to search.

I think decisions like that are an active choice not to become popular.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by afavour »

NAHWheatCracker wrote: post #15

As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media. One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.

> One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter

That was a huge turnoff with Mastodon for me. Seemed almost everyone was just saying “wow, isnt it so much better here than on Twitter?” over and over and having everyone agree. By comparison Bluesky isn’t so bad, at least right now anyway.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by Scion9066 »

bradgessler wrote: post #61
stavros wrote: post #41

Does anyone know any good makers I can follow on there? I'm mostly interested in making stuff, less in monetizing stuff, so I don't want to follow so much entrepreneurs (ie people who like making stuff to make money) as makers (ie people who like making stuff for its own sake). Any good lists? If anyone wants to follow me on there, I'm @stavros.io.

I have a Ruby hackers starter pack at https://bsky.app/starter-pack/bradgessler.com/3laa47lbuwb2r — Edit: replaced cable modem link with starter pack link

Here's the actual link to the starter pack: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/bradgessler.com/3laa47lbuwb2r

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by jrflowers »

quantadev wrote: post #137
chevman wrote: post #55

Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control. It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago. https://joinmastodon.org/

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If anybody is wondering what sort of political viewpoints quantadev is talking about, one example is they posted that The Onion and Alex Jones are the same

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138285

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by lostlogin »

ge96 wrote: post #126
chevman wrote: post #55

Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control. It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago. https://joinmastodon.org/

I wonder how the world would change if ads just disappeared I get things have to be sold but damn it's out of control

Life without Pihole and a blocker is just grim.

Every so often I get exposed to that world. It’s awful.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by crazygringo »

nicce wrote: post #96
ksenzee wrote: post #37

The infrastructure has been rock-solid. I’ve never seen a service grow this fast without any noticeable outages. The architecture and execution are obviously informed by serious experience at Twitter, but it’s also clear that management is giving them everything they need to do the job right.

> The infrastructure has been rock-solid. I’ve never seen a service grow this fast without any noticeable outages. The architecture and execution are obviously informed by serious experience at Twitter, but it’s also clear that management is giving them everything they need to do the job right. The world has changed quite bit. If you have deep pockets and you can use AWS etc., it isn't a major problem anymore. Howeve…

> it isn't a major problem anymore

This is not true at all. The hard part isn't cloud vs. on-premise, it's the architecture.

Most sites can either put all their data in a single massive database, or else have an obvious dimension to shard by (e.g. by user ID if users mostly interact with their own data).

But sites where the data is many-to-many and there's a firehose of writes, of which Twitter is a prime example, are a nightmare to scale while remaining performant and reliable. Every single user gets an updated live feed of tweets drawn from every other user -- handling millions of users simultaneously is not easy.

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