[HN Gopher] Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
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Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
Author : henrijn
Score : 90 points
Date : 2024-11-16 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (bsky.jazco.dev)
| countrymile wrote:
| I've had an account for a few months now, it always felt very
| dead, but something feels like it's shifted.
| matsemann wrote:
| 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.
| pfisherman wrote:
| Agreed. I was on twitter to discover, share, discuss articles
| and talks in my field of research. A couple months ago I had
| trouble finding good accounts and content; but now I am
| starting to find some of the PIs I was following over on
| twitter.
|
| Biosci twitter -> BioSky?
| minimaxir wrote:
| Because there was a _certain_ geopolitical event about two
| weeks ago that was a primary reason many still used Twitter /X
| and now that said event is over (and whose outcome will likely
| cause Twitter/X to further degrade) there is no reason to stay.
|
| The exodus is not happening randomly or in a vacuum.
| geoka9 wrote:
| Or possibly, once the event was over, the users in question
| had the idea that Twitter/X affected the outcome in the way
| they didn't like and they decided to boycott Twitter/X?
| ideashower wrote:
| This plus the fact that starting Nov 15 tweets become by
| default training material for their language models:
| https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-
| using-y...
| James_K wrote:
| One million accounts per day, and all of them making posts about
| their X.
| ideashower wrote:
| It'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
| smrtinsert wrote:
| What'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.
| johnny22 wrote:
| because it's not centralized and you can self host it.
| asddubs wrote:
| if everyone is in practice using the same instance, they can
| just un-decentralize it at any moment they want, though
| vidarh wrote:
| I don't like Bluesky because I feel it's a whole lot of
| pointless Not Invented Here vs. improving on ActivityPub, but
| it is still far more resistant to that than X/Twitter because
| people _can_ migrate more easily.
| jsheard wrote:
| On 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
| James_K wrote:
| A lot of Brazilians there. I guess it makes sense that they are
| a large portion of the user-base after Twitter got banned.
| aucisson_masque wrote:
| > a hall of shame
|
| Usually that's the opposite that happen with these kind of
| people. They are going to look forward on being the at the top
| of the leaderboard, like a child doing stupid things only to
| get noticed by its parents.
| arp242 wrote:
| What happened on Oct 17? I can't really find anything that would
| cause such a dramatic uptick on that day specifically.
| JSDevOps wrote:
| Got to be a podcast or something popular that Donald Trump
| appeared on
| CryZe wrote:
| That was the time we learned about the changes to the block
| feature.
| jsheard wrote:
| That, and the TOS update which requires users to give X
| blanket permission to use their posts for AI training
| (previously you could opt-out). Not that AI companies
| actually care if they have permission right now, but if legal
| precedent doesn't go their way then coercing users into
| "giving permission" to use their data will be the next step.
| ks2048 wrote:
| A bigger jump seemed to be Aug 28 - Sept 7 (daily likers 200k
| => 1M+). I wonder why. (also some days are missing there, so
| maybe something changed in the data collection).
| davidcbc wrote:
| Brazil banned twitter
| bazzargh wrote:
| that was the day they officially announced the change to how
| blocking worked, notifying all users (the owner had mused about
| it a month earlier)
| rvz wrote:
| 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 Mastodon or an arbitrary
| blackbox algorithm that limits / hides your posts found in
| Threads.
|
| Bluesky has learned from the mistakes of others to have a default
| first approach, you choose your own feed + algorithm and a search
| functionality that (works) can find accounts across the platform.
|
| [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750185
|
| [1]
| https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...
| aenopix wrote:
| heavily censored
| insane_dreamer wrote:
| evidence?
| citizenkeen wrote:
| People blocking jerks isn't censorship. Do you have a source
| that there's any kind of censorship going on stronger than
| other social media networks?
| cpeseethe91 wrote:
| The sewage waters of the world
| NAHWheatCracker wrote:
| As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it
| was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that
| style of social media.
|
| One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just
| talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.
| charles_f wrote:
| Lol, I got curious about nostr, and it's the same thing, with
| an extra layer of "crypto currency will save the world"
| matsemann wrote:
| I joined twitter like 3 years ago, so also quite late to this
| type of game. Compared to forums, hn, reddit etc it's quite
| difficult to get your voice heard in the beginning. Anything
| you post is just shown to no one when you have no followers.
| Takes some time interacting with others and hope they follow or
| repost to get some traction.
| skywhopper wrote:
| People talk about what's on their minds. Most of the users just
| moved in the past week or two so that's the hot topic. But
| it'll change soon enough.
| kome wrote:
| finding the same ppl on bluesky needs work, and it's not a job
| i'm going to do. if twitter decays, good; i will get rid of my
| last social media app.
| ksenzee wrote:
| Not all that much work:
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...
| tcfhgj wrote:
| before elon banned the api, there were tools to automate this
| ersiees wrote:
| What is the alternative to AI twitter? Is there some incumbent
| where it moves?
| epistasis wrote:
| Back in the news net days, there used to be a parable about a
| Berkeley hot tub. The owner would give out the code to people,
| and it would be a good party with a rotating cast of characters
| for a while, until eventually a few people ruined the party. Then
| the code would change, and a different crew would start coming
| through.
|
| Pre-Elon, it seemed that Twitter was doing a pretty good run of
| keeping a single social network running for a long time. As has
| Facebook.
|
| But for lots of dedicated communities, the new owner has such
| direct contempt for them and has focused on ruining the party.
|
| Bluesky will work for now. Already science Twitter is having a
| huge renaissance now that links are no longer suppressed and
| discussion has lower noise:
|
| https://substack.com/home/post/p-151688877
| aorloff wrote:
| https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/09/28/berkeley-hot-tub-guy...
| medo-bear wrote:
| What happened to Threads ?
| ksenzee wrote:
| The infrastructure has been rock-solid. I've never seen a service
| grow this fast without any noticeable outages. The architecture
| and execution are obviously informed by serious experience at
| Twitter, but it's also clear that management is giving them
| everything they need to do the job right.
| benjaminwootton wrote:
| The performance is really good. Searches and general
| navigation.
| hebleb wrote:
| I'm a 100% lurker and it's such a nicer experience before any
| enshitification. It probably won't last forever, but no ads or
| spam, and simply seeing a feed of accounts I follow is all I
| want.
| stavros wrote:
| Does anyone know any good makers I can follow on there? I'm
| mostly interested in making stuff, less in monetizing stuff, so I
| don't want to follow so much entrepreneurs (ie people who like
| making stuff to make money) as makers (ie people who like making
| stuff for its own sake). Any good lists?
|
| If anyone wants to follow me on there, I'm @stavros.io.
| rr808 wrote:
| Is it better than Mastodon? I signed up for that then gave up
| quickly.
| qudat wrote:
| 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.
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