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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.

Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform's entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.

The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website "Bluesky Stats." Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.

It's impossible to know whether Musk's comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

FYI jack isn't in control of the site and in fact even deleted his account after the userbase mocked him hard enough, he's all in on nostr now

Also it has federation in testing in a sandbox environment open to external developers, it will work similarly to Mastodon in that regard

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

"Mr Dorsey, ypur new platform is picking up, people are starting to use it"

"... I'm bored"

"Excuse me?"

"I don't want to have a social platform. I just want to make them" *Starts to leave*

"Mr. dorsey? Where are you going? Jack!?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Federation", yeah...

it will work similarly to Mastodon in that regard

Nope, it works more similar to MTProto for Telegram.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Uhm no not at all, 3rd party servers already exists and people can talk across them, telegram has no relevance here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love that I mentioned fart huffing and you automatically assumed I meant Jack.