Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
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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
#2I've had an account for a few months now, it always felt very dead, but something feels like it's shifted.
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#3One million accounts per day, and all of them making posts about their X.
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#4It’s definitely a whole different platform now, compared to when the first exodus happened. I’m loving it!
The “starter pack” feature is great. There’s also this website where you can browse created starter packs for groups/interests you care about: https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#5What's preventing everyone from putting their faith in another broadcast medium just to have it sold to Elon again? It's hard to trust social media these days. They have 0 incentive to be "good" from a variety of perspectives not just political.
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#6On the topic of Bluesky stats, I just learned that blocks are effectively public via the API, so there's a hall of shame ranking the most blocked users on the site: https://vqv.app/blocks.html
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#7What happened on Oct 17? I can't really find anything that would cause such a dramatic uptick on that day specifically.
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#8I've had an account for a few months now, it always felt very dead, but something feels like it's shifted.
My niche moved there summer of 2023, took some time to get going, some cross posting for a while etc, but by the end of the year it was almost exclusively on bsky.
But have noticed the uptick, gained like 400 followers the last week. But it's a bit weird, as it's a Norwegian community, no relation to American politics.
I guess it also can feel dead because it doesn't have a viral algorithmic feed like Twitter. But for me that's not an issue, ad even on Twitter I followed few enough people that I always used the chronological view.
But I do like the custom feeds of bsky. Like a search/hashtag on steroids, making it easy to discover others discussing the same theme I'm there for.
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#9No 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 Mastodon or an arbitrary blackbox algorithm that limits / hides your posts found in Threads or needing a Meta account.
Bluesky has learned from the mistakes of others to start first with a default server approach, you choose your own feed + algorithm and a search functionality that (works) can find accounts across the platform.
Simple.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750185
[1] https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...
Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
#10heavily censored