Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months
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Re: Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months
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Re: Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months
#3I can see it. I feel like it not taking off. Sad.
Re: Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months
#4This is the reality of a platform that is hostile to corporations (even if it is hostile for good reasons). As far as I could tell, the company running Bluesky has limited ideas about monetization. In part, because they’re well aware their user base is hostile to X-style monetization (which, sure, probably made money, but at what cost?)
Hopefully some other ATProto implementor will come along with a better idea.
It is interesting to me that e.g. Adobe left Bluesky after relatively minor pushback, but they stay on X despite the much larger problems associated with that platform.
Re: Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months
#5joining bsky was just a protest vote, not a legit desire to engage
threads felt the same, its also dead
Re: Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months
#6This is the reality of a platform that is hostile to corporations (even if it is hostile for good reasons). As far as I could tell, the company running Bluesky has limited ideas about monetization. In part, because they’re well aware their user base is hostile to X-style monetization (which, sure, probably made money, but at what cost?) Hopefully some other ATProto implementor will come along with a better idea. It i…
But doesn't it mean that it's better for users? Why don't user go there? Do they like being abused by corporations?
Genuinely interested. I don't get why people would use X and not Bluesky.
Re: Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months
#7Perhaps users realized it's not much different from the early Twitter, with likely a similar future: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yoursel...
Re: Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months
#8This is the reality of a platform that is hostile to corporations (even if it is hostile for good reasons). As far as I could tell, the company running Bluesky has limited ideas about monetization. In part, because they’re well aware their user base is hostile to X-style monetization (which, sure, probably made money, but at what cost?) Hopefully some other ATProto implementor will come along with a better idea. It i…
But doesn't it mean that it's better for users? Why don't user go there? Do they like being abused by corporations? Genuinely interested. I don't get why people would use X and not Bluesky.
I mostly interact with scholars on Bluesky, and my feeling is that the ones refusing to leave X don’t understand that a lot of the “engagement” (follows, views, likes) they see there is illusory (bots, spam accounts, misreporting of statistics, etc.)
“I had 10k followers on X but only 2k on Bluesky” is the kind of refrain I hear a lot. Even if they get more “organic” engagement in replies from human beings.
Also, there are no “private” accounts or “private” DMs on Bluesky. (That this only exists on X in name only does not phase them.)
Re: Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months
#9This is the reality of a platform that is hostile to corporations (even if it is hostile for good reasons). As far as I could tell, the company running Bluesky has limited ideas about monetization. In part, because they’re well aware their user base is hostile to X-style monetization (which, sure, probably made money, but at what cost?) Hopefully some other ATProto implementor will come along with a better idea. It i…
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Re: Bluesky user activity has declined by 23% over the past three months
#10I'd love to know the breakdown in declines between bot/engagement accounts and organic posting, though that's likely impossible even with the labeling system. I couldn't tell if there's even a perceptual decline in the former because I've mass-blocked them through blocklists and labelers.