Bluesky now has 30 million users

Post by dep_b » Sun, Feb 09, 2025, 9:08 AM UTC

rvz wrote: post #87

speedgoose wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People don’t really care about decentralisation. Bluesky arrived at the right time, unlike Mastodon.

> Bluesky arrived at the right time, unlike Mastodon. In fact Mastodon had a better chance than BlueSky ever had, but had a significantly worse onboarding experience. Mastodon was there at the right time, (Nov 2022) but was extremely unprepared to onboard millions of users simultaneously and more people were left confused on how to use the platform or even how to create an account or "which instance" to sign up to. T…

Yep, I was at the registration screen multiple times and always left confused. I’m a user now, but it’s quite dead for me while I got featured in a few starter packs a while ago on Bluesky.

Post by vr46 » Sun, Feb 09, 2025, 1:26 PM UTC

richrichardsson wrote: post #16

vr46 wrote: post #11

Yet another shitshow-in-waiting. I know Mastodon isn’t as polished but leaving one frying pan to get into another is a lost opportunity. I failed to convince somebody to move to Mastodon recently.

In my experience there's a huge barrier to entry for Mastodon. I've tried finding a server that worthwhile signing up to on 3 past occasions, every time I found one that seemed like a good fit they weren't accepting signups. Bluesky I got in before it was opened up by adding my email to the waitlist. Simple. And now it's even easier because there is no waitlist.

I agree that there's a barrier, but it's not huge. Mastodon really could use some people versed in marketing and onboarding. People use email without realizing that it's decentralized, I tried to draw parallels between that and Mastodon to my friend, but I failed.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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