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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] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But Twitter has been dead ever since threads took over...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter has been dead for over a year. Well before threads. It started with the shadowbans and the tweaking of the algorithms to push media down our throats when all we wanted was cat photos and to talk about music.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Twitter was dead long before another billionaire bought it, you just didn't listen to gamers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would anyone listen to gamers ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I ignore the opinion of anyone who has an anime chick as their avatar.

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

It's because a lot of them use anime PFPs to dog whistle their pedophilia, kind of like how neo-nazis use squidward PFPs.

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

The Squidward thing is new to me, whats the deal?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's a reference to an old nazi meme which I will not go into detail, but it involves squidward edited to have dark skin.

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

Twitter died when they decided to tweak your timeline so it wasn't chronological. I deleted my account back in 2013 because of that shit.