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Bluesky: Social media site reports surge in new UK users after Elon Musk's riot comments

news.sky.com Bluesky: Social media site reports surge in new UK users after Elon Musk's riot comments

Bluesky may only have a fraction of X's users but the social media site says it has seen a surge in UK users joining its ranks since Elon Musk commented on the riots.

Social media platform Bluesky says it has seen a surge in signups in the United Kingdom in recent days.
Since X owner Elon Musk made controversial comments about the riots in the UK, a number of influential figures said they would leave the platform or scale back their use, including home office minister Jess Philips.
Now, Bluesky says it has seen a 60% jump in general activity from accounts in the UK, with several MPs also joining the platform recently.
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"For 5 out of the last 7 days, the UK had the most Bluesky signups of any country," said Bluesky in a statement on Monday.

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They'll not learn.
I may be preaching to the converted but his about some Mastodon love as there are plenty of UK instances:
https://mastodonapp.uk
https://mastodon.org.uk
https://mastodon.me.uk
https://cupoftea.social
Not sure why there isn't a London-based Instance called Tooting.

Neither Mastodon or Bluesky ever really clicked with me, although I’ve tried and will continue to use both, but I enjoy using Threads because there’s so much cool non-political content there. My feed is archaeologists or astronomists, historians writers and photographers. It being able to connect up to the Fediverse is cool too.
- It being able to connect up to the Fediverse is cool too.
  Didn't a huge majority of the fediverse defederate from Threads?
  
  Yeah probably. Most ‘big’ accounts aren’t on Mastodon anyway though, they’re on Threads.

Bluesky is amazing. I switched there from mastodon as the experience just feels better with a cool vibe. And it’s FOSS decentralised just like mastodon.
- I use it as well. People hating it completely is weird. I get that for profit is stinky but most people don't complain about that, they complain about it using a different protocol. As long as it is foss, (which it is) using a different protocol is fine, especially because their whole point of developing their own protocol is to achieve feature parity with Twitter
  Edit: before anyone mentions, you can host your own bluesky instance now
  
  Do you have a link to a non blue sky blue sky instance for people to jon?

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