• MysticKetchup@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

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

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        10 months ago

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

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        I’m one of those people, definitely not a bot. A friend with several invitations to the beta available offered me one a few days ago and then it was opened so I didn’t need it

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

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      It’s in sort of a weird intermediate space - it does have a federated protocol, but currently the main bluesky server is the only thing on it.

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          Having the most users is great until you realize that’s how Twitter became… Well. Twitter. Before Musk it was still a shit show, with a whole lot of alt right BS going on. It’s gotten worse since he bought it but this is the late stage for platforms like this.

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              As in, part of the enshittification process that brought a lot of us to places like mastodon and Lemmy had to do with social media relying on being wide spread and giving a lot of people (who probably shouldn’t have a platform that reaches the masses) a platform that then proliferates things like conspiracy theories and hate. Additionally though, they survive off ad revenue and have investors which generally makes them sooner or later hostile towards the users so that the investors can benefit from a profitable platform.

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    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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      Someone is already sitting on the rocketlab name. I’m only on X for space launch tweets, and was hoping some of them were posting on both X and Bsky

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      10 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.

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      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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    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.

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    people are wondering if bluesky will end up like twitter. I’m not for one reason, twitter didn’t start going to shit until elon took over, fired the content mod team, and let the neo nazis, porn bots, and cryptobros run rampant. twitter before elon was fairly functional and useful.

    when they eventually scale up I can see bluesky being what pre elon twitter was, especially with content moderation.