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People are actually on BlueSky (hachyderm.io)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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People are actually on BlueSky

There's now a decent measurement of #bluesky user numbers (https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html) ...

They've got about 1.6M MAUs ...
& 0.8M Weekly unique users & 0.340M Daily.

That's not nothing!

Roughly double mastodon and 60% more than the whole fediverse (by MAUs, see fedidb.org).

Bluesky is quite "international" with large Japanese and Brazilian popltns, and there's real attrition happening IMO.

Still, let the protocol wars begin I suppose?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Do you have any links? I was unable to find any. Also if you don't mind, what is the benefit to running one's own BlueSky instance when instance owners don't control the moderation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People would run their own PDS for a couple of reasons, build their own communities, host their own data, their own moderation practices & policies, and maybe they don’t want the “big world” view

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/bluesky-opens-up-federation-letting-anyone-run-their-own-server/amp/

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I meant links to instances not owned by the main company. Are there any?