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[–] [email protected] 107 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's to be expected. What remains to be seen is how many of them will stick around after the initial surge.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Im more curious how many are bots made to look like its booming with traffic

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

idk. After they dropped invite codes, they started requiring phone numbers for sign up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Because those aren't incredibly easy to spoof or anything?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I registered with a VoIP number that a free app gave me. I doubt they're blocking all the freely available "temp sms" numbers out there.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 8 months ago (3 children)

oh nice. If this trend continues, they will be by 4 million tommorrow and 20 million next week and by summer every human on earth will have an account.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You’re now a moderator of c/capitalism & c/investing

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

And then onward to the extraterrestrial market!

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, no thanks. I'm good with Lemmy and Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Same - I was mildly curious to be honest, but not nearly enough to give them my phone number.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Goodbye Bluesky

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

whoever made that graph needs to learn how to properly space their horizontal axis labels

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

How quickly will it become a serious contender against Twitter?

I'll stick with lemmy, but I'd love to bathe in some schadenfreude at musks expense.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Engagement :

"Hello world!"
"Hi"
"Welcome"
"Hi"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

That's the beauty of it already being a thriving forum before opening up to the public, there's a lot of ongoing content beyond people logging on and saying hi for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (6 children)

While some may see this as good for Bluesky, I bet this is the floodgates opening to bots and algorithmically boosted harmful content. Good luck everyone on there!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All the algorithms on bluesky are optional, there's both official feeds and a lot of 3rd party feeds (and they don't run on view counts!), so there's no trivial way to game the algorithms to reach the userbase

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Threads default settings are like an open fire hose of rage bait and negativity spraying directly into your face. It's pretty wild without some manual feed pruning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I've been using Mastodon and it's a pleasant change of pace. I've heard of some spam happening there but I think responsive admins and the lack of algorithmic feeds really reduces their reach.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

That's what I was thinking... Here come the bots

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What is bluesky? Basically a twitter clone that was spun off as it's own thing by the twitter team that was working on federation when Musk took over. It's pretty good if you liked the pre-Musk twitter vibe or a slightly smaller scale and leftier version of it.

https://bsky.app/

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ah yes another commercial social media platform taking the first steps in the enshitification process. We've seen this all before in the early days of other platforms before the decay sets in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

They have more posts than lemmy has active users. Nice

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

I don't understand the categories' purpose here. Can't someone be all three? Or are they presented as a hierarchy, like "likers" have liked but not followed or posted, "followers" have followed someone but not posted, while "posters" have posted?

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