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/
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
#72Gratz to the blue sky team, it’s very hard getting a social media app to gain traction. However, after messing around with twitter and mastodon, I really do not get the appeal. All the incentives are not to have meaningful conversation, rather it is all about engagement. It’s way too much noise and not for me.
It strictly depends on who you follow. Follow people who have something to say, and you'll have meaningful conversation.
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#73Highly 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/
why isn't mastodon one of the winners like bluesky?
No one owns it so there’s no team of well paid professionals trying to make it grow.
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#74Highly 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/
why isn't mastodon one of the winners like bluesky?
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#75Highly 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/
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#76Zuck dropped the ball bad.
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#77No surprise as to why Bluesky is taking off, despite calling it years ago. [0] Now it has 18M+ users with 9M MAUs and 3.3M DAUs [1] after removing the invite system. The familiarity is easily transferable for a migration from Twitter / X. If you know how to use Twitter / X then you know how to use 90% of Bluesky. No need to 'choose an instance' or some admin shutting a server down due to 'other reasons' unlike with M…
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#78Highly 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/
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
why isn't mastodon one of the winners like bluesky?
Mastodon is confusing for non-technical users, while Bluesky is pretty much a drop-in replacement for Twitter.