Another million users joined Bluesky today – could Bluesky spike spark end of X?

https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-exodus-could-bluesky-spike-spark-end-of-elon-musks-social-media-platform-13254722

by pms • 2 years ago

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mtmail• 2 years ago

Related "Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159713

Just to clarify... The article says "Bluesky claims one million users joined the platform in one day this week." I'm not sure it was today. (There might've been a spike earlier this week that has since started slowing down.)

But what's more important is how the article also mentions Mastodon (plus Threads, Discord, and other alternatives.) I really think what this all points to is a growing need for fediverse-enabled social sites...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

pms2• 2 years ago

At least two days in a row now, including today: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lb3qyu64bs2z

grahamj• 2 years ago

Oh I hope so

jauntywundrkind• 2 years ago

https://bsky.app/profile/martin.kleppmann.com/post/3lb3xtbfv... is a Martin Kleppman post, showing an old screen grab from ExTwitter metrics of them doing 20k likes/s.

Bluesky has been doing around 700/s.

So, ~2^5 away. Not bad!

blastonico• 2 years ago

Koo, Threads, Mastodon, and now the new X killer is Bluesky. What's next?

Suggestions:

  - x++

  - y

  - x#

  - X rewritten in Rust

nathanaldensr• 2 years ago

Just because people are joining Bluesky doesn't mean they're leaving X.

Zigurd• 2 years ago

Technically correct, but on Bluesky there are lists of the kind of people who. like what X has become, so that they can be blocked en masse.

pms2• 2 years ago

Why this got flagged?

Another million users joined Bluesky today – could Bluesky spike spark end of X?

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