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Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

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Re: Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

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Post by nitwit005 »

semiquaver wrote: post #34

As an anecdote, I switched a year or two ago along with most everyone I followed on X. It’s nothing like the vibe on old Twitter. I hate to say it, but it’s just too ideologically siloed. I’m quite left of center, but everyone on bluesky seems to be a caricature; the blue-haired loonies the right memes about. People there are seriously intolerant of anything other than their perceived orthodoxy. I don’t know what mad…

You choose what you see on Bluesky. I see little politics while using it. If everyone you followed moved over, just limit it to their posts.

Re: Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

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ecshafer wrote: post #30

Bluesky and Threads both have a fundamental issue in that their entire pitch is "We are like Twitter, but we are not run by Elon Musk, a Republican." Which only energizes the most radical, fringe, terminally online, who happen to be the ones that were most disliked on regular Twitter in the first place. When you whole pitch has zero appeal to 95% of people, its dead.

Neither Bluesky or Threads actually made that pitch.

Threads was started up because of the business opportunity of Musk fumbling things, but Bluesky seemed almost annoyed by all the new users.

Re: Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

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Post by nitwit005 »

TMWNN wrote: post #24

Reddit is dominated by the left, but there are other voice audible. Twitter has plenty of leftists. They are very, very, very easy to find, as is every other shape and size of political, ideological, or spiritual thought; far easier than, say, a non-leftist viewpoint on the worldnews or politics subreddits, which because of their default status are much more inescapable than any one Twitter account. There are very, v…

> Twitter has plenty of leftists.

How, when according to you, they're dominating Reddit and Bsky?

Baring the possibility that people on the left use all the platforms, and people on the right don't for some reason, an excess on one platform has to mean a shortage on another.

Re: Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

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Post by kuramori »

goatlover wrote: post #202
kuramori wrote: post #200

So maybe far left echo chamber as a service is not that good of a business model after all. But then there’s Reddit.

Define "far left". In comparison to MAGA? The Overton window of the US has shifted so far right that universal healthcare and free education are seen as one step removed from communism.

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Re: Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

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Post by aeternum »

Anon1096 wrote: post #125
hamburglar wrote: post #99

I notice that the stat the article repeatedly quotes is MAU for usage of the mobile app, but one of the things I love about Bluesky is that you don’t need to use a mobile app to have a good UX. I use the mobile browser to access it, so I’m not in that MAU number. Perhaps bsky has a larger number of active users that don’t use the app?

To be clear, since the mobile app users are decreasing, what you would actually need to claim is that "web users are more likely to continue using the app than mobile users are", not just that "there are a lot of web users", since the base assumption is that web and mobile users use the site in similar ways. I don't really see any reason to believe the former, and actually having worked on social media extensively I…

A cursory search of bluesky web vs. mobile (surprisingly) suggests that the web experience might actually be better and users seems to recommend it over the app.

This is rare but does suggest a possible effect where users realize this over time and switch.

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Post by axus »

philipallstar wrote: post #108
dragonwriter wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only way in which BlueSky is preferentially catering to the left is by existing as an alternative to X and specifically providing tighter control of what is in your feed; and this is only “catering to the Left” because of the groups towards which X either has weakened or stopped enforcing its policies against harassment towards. (In a market with strong network externalities, being the dominant player is self rei…

X no longer makes the "people dogpiling conservatives is consequence culture" vs "people dogpiling far leftists is harassment" distinction, but BlueSky still does.

What ever happened to the guy with the jet tracker
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