Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.
There are now more than 14.5 million users total on the platform.
Mastodon needs to get shiny and pretty and intuitive. Bluesky is gonna suck eventually because it's corporate, the Fediverse will only get better.
But it needs to lose the fucking github energy.
Honestly Misskey forks for all their flaws can absolutely take this opportunity to properly advertise themselves as viable alternatives. As someone who uses a Misskey fork, I love the UI in comparison to Mastodon, and the communities in Misskey forks are a lot less techie and a lot more laid back and goofy most of the time from my personal experience.
If it's any consolation I am seeing bridged account for Mastodon over there. I think people will get more exposure to the wider Fedverse while they're there.
Over a million actually by now, and they got above 15 mil total.
Oh cool, good job waiting until AFTER the election to do this incredibly basic and easy move, everyone. Jesus fucking christ
Running from one platform backed by people who supported Trump, right into another one. Gotta love controlled opposition and the illusion of choice.
Maybe Musk won the election, but he might lose Xitter.
People been saying this for years since he took over and nothing changes.
DNC and kamala lost the election... Quit blaming pathetic fails on the winner lol
On one hand that's a good thing.
On the other hand you had to wait for our government to go fascist to start making the bare minimum of effort so here's a temporary "Go Fuck Yourself" from those of us that knew enough to leave two years ago.
Look I've bopped around bsky and do enjoy it. Wish Mastodon had picked up the eXodus but bsky isn't the worst alternative.
Really hoping we get past the point where day old accounts are saying "bluesky is such a BREATH of FRESH AIR". I would think so too though if I was breathing whatever is coming out of of Twitter up until now...
People not so much leaving the country as switching their advertising tracker?
Half of them right wing bots getting ready to do the same thing again.
Exist any web with a list of not the main blusky social instance?
I'm 2 of them
Ok now link up all the major platforms for the Web Wars Of The 2020s.
Is Bluesky prone to enshittification? I don’t know much about the AT protocol, but it seems like it works relatively similar to ActivityPub. Is it open source?
Enshitification is not about the technologies being used - it happens when the owners make decisions that disrespect the users
See Cory Doctorow's Bluesky and enshittification.