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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 nicce »

xboxnolifes wrote: post #151
nicce wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> Netflix has streaming issues running on AWS infrastructure

I think the performance of Netflix is highly dependent of ISP's data centers [1].

But yeah, there are still limits where the cloud won't help you.

If you whole infrastructure is designed to serve "historical" content instead of streaming, some bottlenecks cannot be avoided if you want to server low-latency sports stream. This came by surprise for me, but apparently betting has still significant role for the viewers.

[1]: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

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

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Post by threeseed »

addaon wrote: post #163
threeseed wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Threads was the fastest growing app of all time and now has ~300m MAU, 1m new users a day and is on track to being larger than X in about a year. And then once they switch on advertising will be printing tens of billions a year. Hard to see how they've dropped the ball on this one.

> And then once they switch on advertising will be printing tens of billions a year. I’ve seen this said before, and I guess it might be true, but I don’t really get why people would use Threads once there’s advertising on it — isn’t it being a better experience their main value proposition? And they’ve just spent the last few years teaching people how easy it is to migrate between these basically-interchangeable ser…

X has ads. Bluesky will inevitably have ads.

So which platform do you see them moving to ?

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

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Post by quantadev »

jrflowers wrote: post #187
quantadev wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love having "followers" like you, jrflowers. Did you ever figure out how to setup that URL that pulls up just my posts?

This site doesn’t have followers but if you see somebody POSTING in the VOICE of a guy wearing a sandwich board that says CHRIST WAS A LIZARD it only takes two clicks to see the other stuff they voluntarily posted publicly here (username -> comments)

That's very nice. Being from the Conservative-run city of Dallas, I've personally never seen a sandwich-board in real life.

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

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Post by blackeyeblitzar »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #21
aenopix wrote: post #10

heavily censored

evidence?

I can’t find it now, but in one of the other HN threads, someone had shared a link to some lawyer defending women’s rights for sex-segregated things (like who gets to play in women’s sports). That profile had a label of “Intolerant” at the top, and nearly every post of theirs also had that same word “Intolerant” in a box in the body of each post, in place of the actual content that would be there. A little informational message indicated these labels were applied by an automated system. You would have to click the button to uncensor and view the message anyways, but it makes it much harder to consume their feed since you have to do that for each individual post, every single time you view the page. Someone else pointed out that you can opt out of the default moderation/censorship scheme that applies this labeling but the fact that it is on by default is problematic in terms of offering a politically neutral platform, since that is what most people will get.

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

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Post by jrflowers »

quantadev wrote: post #193
jrflowers wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This site doesn’t have followers but if you see somebody POSTING in the VOICE of a guy wearing a sandwich board that says CHRIST WAS A LIZARD it only takes two clicks to see the other stuff they voluntarily posted publicly here (username -> comments)

That's very nice. Being from the Conservative-run city of Dallas, I've personally never seen a sandwich-board in real life.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2112840-rent-free

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

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

genem9 wrote: post #143
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #92

No one has called me a shitlord, cuck, idiot, or otherwise implied I’m stupid for the entire time I’ve used it. It’s great. The tech community on there is really solid, at least insofar as my interests go.

What happens when they do, are you going to leave?

I’ll have to complain about it and have a big cry first, but yeah.

I’m not actually opposed to people disagreeing with me or thinking my ideas are bad. It’s just pointless chaos and no functional or constructive discourse. That’s more so what bothers me about it.

Even in relatively tame topics there tends to be some devaluing interjection of some sort. It gets tiring trying to find interesting content but only finding that, over and over.

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

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Post by quantadev »

jrflowers wrote: post #195
quantadev wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's very nice. Being from the Conservative-run city of Dallas, I've personally never seen a sandwich-board in real life.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2112840-rent-free

I don't click random, likely dangerous links, but it's good to see you've been rendered speechless. I like that.

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

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Post by ksenzee »

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…

They moved from AWS to on-prem sometime in the last year or two: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

And I don't care how many resources you have available to throw at it, plenty of sites would still fall over with the kind of growth they're having.

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

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Post by happytoexplain »

genem9 wrote: post #143
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #92

No one has called me a shitlord, cuck, idiot, or otherwise implied I’m stupid for the entire time I’ve used it. It’s great. The tech community on there is really solid, at least insofar as my interests go.

What happens when they do, are you going to leave?

Isn't that the implication? If you're on a platform with a lot of low quality bitterness and another one pops up with less of that, just move. If it happens again, move again. It's not team sports, you shouldn't feel loyalty. The only problems are practical, rather than psychological.
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