Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.
Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform’s entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.
The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website “Bluesky Stats.” Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.
It’s impossible to know whether Musk’s comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.
Great another social media platform from the same fart huffing dumb asses that sold Twitter… it’s like people don’t learn lessons.
FYI jack isn’t in control of the site and in fact even deleted his account after the userbase mocked him hard enough, he’s all in on nostr now
Also it has federation in testing in a sandbox environment open to external developers, it will work similarly to Mastodon in that regard
I love that I mentioned fart huffing and you automatically assumed I meant Jack.
“Federation”, yeah…
it will work similarly to Mastodon in that regard
Nope, it works more similar to MTProto for Telegram.
Uhm no not at all, 3rd party servers already exists and people can talk across them, telegram has no relevance here
“Mr Dorsey, ypur new platform is picking up, people are starting to use it”
“… I’m bored”
“Excuse me?”
“I don’t want to have a social platform. I just want to make them” *Starts to leave*
“Mr. dorsey? Where are you going? Jack!?”
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Americans be like “I like fascism I just don’t like THIS fascism”
I learned today that you’d have to be confined in a small room with approximately a year’s worth of farts before you risk asphyxiation.
Not my farts, that’d only take about a month
TIL
Always good to see more people looking into platforms besides Twitter, plenty of great places out there
Until they sell that platform too and you have to grow your follower base somewhere else yet again.
Bluesky has federation in testing in a sandbox open to external developers, already interoperating with 3rd party implementations
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Everyone should defederate from bluesky
They don’t use AP, so there is no federation to begin with.
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They don’t intend do use open protocol. And it’s more centralized than you expect.
They do have an open protocol (atprotocol) but it’s not compatible with anything existing
It’s not even Fediverse either. It’s their own protocol. Can’t even really federate much either.
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They have federation on in their sandbox network with 3rd party clients already working, but it’s not going to talk activitypub
Non-activitypub federated protocols? Who is even the 3rd party in this instance? Nostr?
Nostr is a wildly different protocol from atprotocol and activitypub.
Activitypub is very much like email (SMTP) over http, pushing messages between servers. Atprotocol is instead using a model of a repository with profile and posts per user on federated servers along with aggregation servers (CDN-ish) and a pull model for retrieval. Nostr is a P2P protocol with “gossip nodes”
Yeah and also Gmail should defederate Skype.
… Wait what’s that it’s different protocols? Oh well
has federation
Hahaha, no. It’s like MTProto in Telegram, but without being honest that it’s centralized.
Every single component have 3rd party implementations or an alternative which doesn’t depend on them (standard account DID lookups go through their servers but web DID is fully independent). The options he says nobody will create ALREADY EXISTS
The protocol literally doesn’t allow them to be gatekeepers.
The protocol literally doesn’t allow them to be gatekeepers.
Authentication is heavily tied to their servers
You can initialize your account with your own DID key using web DID instead of the current (technically placeholder DID) and you won’t be dependent on their servers for authentication. Especially in the federation sandbox that’s available for 3rd parties
From what you say I can approximate how it will go. First perpetual in-dev federation, then once they get enough people, they will say “not enough interest in federation” and stop development or pull the plug completely.
Not too surprising.
Anything in form of competition is good imho.
It’s also controlled by another crypto shill, so it has that in common with Twitter too.
But Twitter has been dead ever since threads took over…
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Twitter was dead long before another billionaire bought it, you just didn’t listen to gamers.
Twitter died when they decided to tweak your timeline so it wasn’t chronological. I deleted my account back in 2013 because of that shit.
Why would anyone listen to gamers ?
I ignore the opinion of anyone who has an anime chick as their avatar.
It’s because a lot of them use anime PFPs to dog whistle their pedophilia, kind of like how neo-nazis use squidward PFPs.
The Squidward thing is new to me, whats the deal?
It’s a reference to an old nazi meme which I will not go into detail, but it involves squidward edited to have dark skin.
How the hell do you even sign up
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Yeah that’s why I’m wondering how the heck are they signing up
Users who already have accounts on Bluesky get access codes they can give out to others over time. You don’t even need to open the app to earn access codes. You just need an account.
Basically, as the devs let more and more people in, the platform will experience exponential growth. If the devs let in one person, that one person can let in 5 more in just 2 months time, and those 5 can let in 5 more each, and so on.
Why the hell Bluesky is still invite only is beyond me. They killed their hype during the most important time, during multiple Twitter exoduses. People wanted to swap to it but couldn’t. They were so desperate that Threads got 100m users really quick, just because people so badly wanted a Twitter alternative. Invite only doesn’t even provide any benefit.
Bluesky doesn’t apparently have all the user safety tools that it needs before opening the flood gates.
Wow we have a lot in common, neither does Lemmy lol
Artificial scarcity.
That’s the only real reasons anybody goes the invite-only route, (that and extremely lazy moderation) it’s mainly to create FOMO for popularity. That’s also why they aren’t publicly visible and require you to login to view posts.
Glad cracker musk is losing money over this, I just wish people wouldn’t just jump into the next boiling pot because the current one got too hot.
How do you sign up? I’m on the wait list for about a half year.
Strange to measure it against an invite only site, I would love to sign up but I haven’t been able to find invites. I think between Mastodon, Bluesky & Threads via ActivityPub (eventually) will get most of my communities back.
I love Mastodon & prefer it in many ways but there just aren’t enough people there. The tech & dev community is lively, everything else is essentially non-existent.
And why Threads instead of Mastodon if you belive it will use ActivityPub.
The tech & dev community is lively, everything else is essentially non-existent.
Broners are pretty active there. Biggest instance is equestria.social, some people use or run smaller instances, some use GP instances.
Threads has momentum and easy signups, it’s simple for people. I wouldn’t use it myself directly but I’m sure it would help expand the communities that are available via a Mastodon client.
Do you want one? I have a spare.
Sure, that would be amazing. Thank you!
I just realized I have no idea how to pm someone on here
Not sure via the mobile apps, and there are so many. From the regular Lemmy web interface, you just tap their name anywhere which takes you to their profile and then tap “Send Message” in the top right corner.
Found it!
It’s a convenience article. They’re just reporting some number they have access to.
God I hope he gets gaslit into actually making Twitter a subscription. It would be so funny
I saw a claim that Elon never said that but actually said: we will ad a lower cost tier.
If anyone has a Bluesky invite lying around, I wouldn’t mind a PM.
Pretty pleeease. 😁
Downvoted. Oops. Am I not allowed to ask that?
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I see it like this. Ignoring it won’t do me any good. It won’t go away. So better to see what it’s all about. Like so I can have an informed conversation.
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I firmly believe Elon is trying to run Twitter out of relevancy, or business entirely.
I agree but I don’t understand why. What motivated him to sink 1/4th of his net worth into Twitter then kill it?
Knowing this nutter he’s probably doing it so people can’t talk about the crappy Tesla QC.
Or that the cybertruck is a pathetic failure amd all his engineers hate it
The lawsuit he was destined to lose. Why do people here so often act like this was his masterplan all along? He fucked around and tried to back out, then Twitter sued him into buying the company. From what I can tell this is just Musk being Musk, reportedly he has surrounded himself with yes-men.
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The jet tracker
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Twitter is a huge place where leftists organize
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Probably wants to pull a reddit and push Trump
- I wouldn’t say that. It was filled with far-right and some people who like others to suffer and bring to suicide indie game developers.
It’s also used by fascists but there have been a lot of genuine leftist organizing going down deep in the cracks of that hellsite.
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If that were true, the investors who paid him billions for the take over will want his head on a spike.
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If you’d know who these investors are, you’d know running twitter to ground is their goal at this point as well
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Plausible deniability, combined with opportunism. If they brought it, and shut it down, it would be painfully obvious. This could cause significant problems or pushback on them. Musk being an idiot provided an opportunity to them. They back musk, and he makes it non viable, however he wants. All the public outrage gets focused onto musk (who likes the attention).
I still can’t decide between the 2 options. Either musk is just THAT big of an idiot, or if it’s the result of some backroom deal. Both seem feasible.
I suspect that might have been their intent but they didn’t tell Musk. They knew him doing his best would be enough to tank it.
Yeah, his ego won’t allow him to fail with grace.
Ok, but why though? How do you make money when the stock value is falling?
The theory is they’re not trying to make money, but is trying to make it harder to use Twitter for organizing protests or share ideas that threaten their status quo.
Interesting. So are you saying there’s government money behind this?
Biggest investor is Saudi Arabia.
Ok, so this is just a way to prevent another Arab spring from happening. Seems like a smart move until you realize that people have lots of alternative platforms too. It’s a bit more fragmented, so organizing a demonstration on mastodon probably won’t get that big that fast.
Musk is government money
The biggest funders are the Saudis, who hate Twitter for the way it allowed communication during The Arab Spring. 42 billion is nothing to them. They want Twitter to die, or be run the way the want it.
Lose $42 billion speed run challenge
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I didn’t know a coffee shop owner was so rich.
Who holds WR in EU%? You know, where endgame is getting wrecked by anti-monopoly agency.
I think his Saudi funders are pleased.
As Twitter is a big PR tool for Ukraine he’s again doing Putin a favour.
what the fuck is Bluesky
