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Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days.

Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days.

The platform posted about the milestone this afternoon, which it crossed after Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a ban on Elon Musk’s X yesterday as part of an ongoing feud with the platform.

Apparently, enough are headed to Bluesky to drive its iOS app to the top of the Brazilian App Store, as TechCrunch writes.

InternetUser2012 ,

900k of them are bots getting ready.

ruk_n_rul ,

I’m sad that a lot of people couldn’t perceive the mastodon in the room.

Beacon ,

Mastodon isn't a straight replacement for twitter, bluesky is.

piracysails ,

Why is that?

mesamunefire ,

Mastodon does have as many arbitrary restrictions for one.

sem ,

From what I can tell from within the Mastodon echo chamber: quote replies and moderation

knova ,
@knova@infosec.pub avatar

Sure, but there are other ActivityPub protocol softwares that have quote replies and moderation, that aren’t Mastodon. I think the challenge is getting the average user to seek out an instance running one of those softwares and not just mastodon dot social.

irotsoma ,
@irotsoma@lemmy.world avatar

Problem is there’s no marketing money to make the better platforms more widely known because there’s not as much monetization of the users to fund it.

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

Mastodon is a bi replacement for twitter.

realcaseyrollins ,

Wait people didn’t join Mastodon as well? Just Bluesky?

hemmes ,
@hemmes@lemmy.world avatar

That’s actually a good question. Surely Mastodon and Lemmy instances should have also seen an uptick in registrations?

Tattorack ,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Finding the right mastodon instance was incredibly annoying. I use it, but barely. Most of the artists I follow are on Bluesky, anyway, which is a lot easier to use.

atrielienz ,

Didn’t India just ban Twitter or something?

Edit: It was Brazil.

Beaver ,
@Beaver@lemmy.ca avatar

BJP would never as they’re fascists themselves.

jaggedrobotpubes ,

Non-twitter is fine in any form. Real progress is gonna be going to Mastodon, although that’s hamstrung by user-unfriendliness.

blindbunny ,

While I agree with you. I don’t think Mastodon is user unfriendly I think of it as a normie blocker. That being said, bluesky is owning class social media, I expect the enshittification to start now that they have a million + users.

ngwoo ,

“Normie blocker” is just how abnormies rationalize bad design

blindbunny ,

Except it’s not. It’s real easy to learn you can choose any instance you’re welcome to. Normies are the ones choosing not to learn.

I do feel sorry for them because they’re probably going to get pushed to the next billionaires social media in the next decade to be exploited there too.

Unless I’m completely missing something? What’s so bad about the design? I’m pretty dumb and uneducated and I dig me some federated social media purely because it’s genuine compared to the owning class social media.

tabris ,

Mastadon has definitely improved it’s user onboarding process. When I first tried, and failed, to use it 3 years ago it was awful. Signing up a year ago was a painless process. It may not be fully ready for the mainstream just yet, but it’s definitely getting there.

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I had originally been 100% against Bluesky because of Jack Dorsey, but when he got so steamed about them doing things like actual moderation and left entirely back to Twitter to pettily suck up to Musk, I really started feeling like maybe Bluesky might not be so bad after all.

geneva_convenience OP ,

Create, Grow, Moderate, Sell, Repeat.

blindbunny ,

I prefer Embrace, extend, and extinguish

mesamunefire ,

The fediverse is seeing an uptick as well. Elons enshitofication continues. Good for us I suppose.

Lost_My_Mind ,

What are blueskys current userbase numbers, mastodons current userbase numbers, and are they federated with each other?

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

fedidb.org

lord_ryvan ,

That does not seem to know about Bluesky

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

It does, however, know about Mastodon.

can ,

Right, because FediDB tracks activitypub, which bluesky is not built upon.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

…right but, as I said, Mastodon is. Which is what they asked about…

can ,

Oh, right. I guess I forgot all the individual questions. My bad.

lord_ryvan ,

Sure, but dari does not address 2/3rds of their answer. Just posting a link makes it seem like it does. You could’ve added that it only addresses Mastodon’s user base from their answer and not Bluesky’s nor wether they can communicate.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Dude, grow up.

SkaveRat ,

that’s for fediverse. not bluesky

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

They asked about Mastodon…

noodlejetski ,

are they federated with each other?

no. there’s a sort of a third party bridge, but it requires an account on one platform to follow a bot in order to show up on another, so if someone on Bluesky doesn’t explicitly do it and you’re using Mastodon, then you’re not going to connect.

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Two competing federation standards. The VHS and Betamax, or Blu Ray and HD-DVD, of 2024.

lord_ryvan ,

They do not federate with each other AFAIK, Mastodon’s user base is in another user’s answer, Bluesky’s IDK except apparently one million more than before

TacoEvent ,

Bluesky: bsky.jazco.dev/statsMastodon: fedidb.org/software/mastodon

There isn’t a 1:1 comparison. But the closest comparison looks like Mastodon is on a bit of a decline at 800k MAU. Bluesky is roughly 400k daily likers.

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