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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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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/

mastodon is federated, not decentralized

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

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Gratz 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.

You could be right but these platforms have not historically been about long form discussions, rather quips and glib remarks to drive clicks.

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

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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/

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

> fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control.

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

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post #65
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/

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

Try using it, it has extra steps and decisions that add friction and are annoying / challenging for end-users.

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

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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/

Federated and no control just means it’s going to be overrun by trolls at some point?

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

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No 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…

And I’ll call it right now back to you now. It will go the way less than mediocrity of threads and mastodon.

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

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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 appreciate Mastodon and wish it were growing steadily. Unfortunately, activity metrics (see the second chart on this page, for example [0]) suggest that it's on a steady, slow decline.

[0] https://mastodon-analytics.com/

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

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Earlier 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.

And beyond that, the federated aspect makes it very different from a global site like twitter. It was aimed at having control but in doing so you feel disconnect IMHO.
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