Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

We're seeing a substantial increase on the Mastodon instance I help moderate too, but there's no aggregate marketing department at Mastodon so we don't get any headlines.

Going from one shitty capitalist business to another shitty capitalist business.

Everything is better than Twitter I guess.

Is this running on a modified version of Mastodon?

FWIW there's a way to bridge Bluesky accounts to Mastodon

https://fed.brid.gy/

Bluesky is not as decentralized as you think.. Just saying.

Soon Twitter will complete its transition to Nazi Bar of Social Media.

Impressive, since "network effects" are what keeps people on a platform. Why move off Xitter or FB when everyone's on there, and not on the new place? Keep moving a significant fraction of a million people every week, and pretty soon, it'll be where everyone is.

My partner, who is very non-technical, signed up for a BlueSky as well this week: "all the teacher blogs have declared that they are moving over". Looks like everyone has had enough.

I honestly don't understand why people waited so I don't use mastodon but I did cancel my Twitter account literally the first week he bought it. It wasn't hard to see this coming and I just don't get the delay.

An even better alternative is to replace it with nothing. The Twitter-like messaging paradigm is only good for trivia and rumor-mongering.

Bluesky is popping off lately it feels even more lively and the block tools are great.

I made an account yesterday to see how it is, however, I never used Twitter and so I don’t really understand how BlueSky works (since it suppose to be the same as Twitter?).

I followed 8 people and a couple of “#” but I barely see a thing of the people, I follow.

700,001

What aren't they joining Mastodon and Lemmy? Or even Threads?

as a Bluesky / Mastodon user, Mastodon is wayyyy better.

eh it is good to leave that shit hole behind but Elon already got very high returns from his investment on Shitter (got his daddy elected) so it's too late.

I've seen the effect. It's just like after Brazil cut Twitter off. My very niche account has been gaining new followers by the hour.

I have no idea how people interested in Heathcliff are being found by new people. Much less people interested in Heathcliff without Heathcliff.

People doing anything to not use mastodon...

The most important, how many people will stay.

Bluesky? What even is that? Mastodon all the way

I wonder how long it'll last before it gets all spammy.

I got like 10 follows in three days from actual accounts. I've posted/replied just a few times andy avatar is Richard Simmons. I figured something was up

I use both Mastodon and BlueSky and I don't really care for platforms like Twitter. Both Mastodon and BlueSky are good in their own ways but I think BlueSky is user friendly. Easy to setup looks super similar to Twitter, easier to navigate.

Plus, I have heard about it pretty much everywhere. It is commonly compared to Threads. I only know and heard about Mastodon on Lemmy.

I might give Bluesky a shot, but it better not end up like f'n Reddit.

I just made a new account on BS, I haven’t done anything at all yet, no comments, likes, etc. Immediately followed by a woman with an OF link in her bio. Is that not against the rules? How did she find my account?

Go to Mastadon you tards

Still waiting for Bluesky to start forcing ads in your feed... at some point it is inevitable.

Oh hey I'm one of them!

What's Bluesky going to do to combat Russian bots and misinformation, and essentially keep it from becoming Twitter/X?

Would be hilarious if Musk buy that too.

Leaving the musky fields for where the sky is truly bluer.

I signed up, out of curiosity but I don't have any friends there that I know about. Kinda like Lemmy, but Lemmy but works great for not having friends.

That don't indicate shit

Is this why the app is worthless trash? I just tried it and while scrolling through artists and trying to like posts to prime the algorithm the whole app will just stop responding. I can scroll but none of the buttons work. Can't favorite, go back to home, anything until it suddenly does all the taps backlog at once.

Makes sense as it's react native trash. I fucking hate that name. There is nothing native about react native it's just web code garbage

Bluesky was started by the same nazi who sold twitter to elon.. I will not ever be using bluesky.. Threads was started by the same nazi that owns facebook so I will not ever be using threads....

For a sense of perspective, Twitter has 106 million users in USA. 700 000 is 0.67% of that.