Fediverse @lemmy.world blue_berry @lemmy.world 2 mo. ago

Bluesky continues to soar

techcrunch.com Bluesky continues to soar, adding 2M more new users in a matter of days | TechCrunch

As new users downloaded the app, Bluesky jumped to becoming the app to No. 1 in Brazil over the weekend, ahead of Meta's X competitor, Instagram Threads.

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🦋 Bluesky Social @lemmy.ml airportline @lemmy.ml 2 mo. ago

Bluesky continues to soar, adding 2M more new users in a matter of days | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com /2024/09/03/bluesky-continues-to-soar-adding-2m-more-new-users-in-a-matter-of-days/

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Even if it doesnt have much impact on activitypub-fedi, I think this is good news for the fediverse in general. X is loosing more and more relevancy and microblogging is more and more happening on federating services.
Techcrunch has basically been an ad network for companies who want to promote themselves. Other open source projects probably don't have a budget to pay for an a̶r̶t̶i̶c̶l̶e̶ ad spot.
I'm way too federated for this.
Mastodon.social just went over the 2 million user mark. The switch to fediverse and fediverse adjacent is going pretty quick.
Blue sky leads to the same trap Twitter was. A place that will be purchased by some asshole that shits on everyone for money.
Jack Dorsey left the board, so I'm ok with that. Good for them!
i dont like bluesky bcs its missing alot of features compared to mastodon and twitter also when you host bluesky the server you hosted you cant view bsky.social so thats why i use mastodon alongside
Good. Competition is good. If they suceed or fail just means we learn and build a better product.
It would be interesting to know more about the additional users. The banning of Shitter in Brazil is very much tied to internal politics and AFAIK it might be the Brazilian equivalent to MAGA that is currently mass-migrating to Bluesky.

If so, this might be a bad thing for them, as they probably don't want to get perceived as the Brazilian truth.social.
People will never learn, will they? You give them AP and they go for the Jack Dorsey clone. Amazing

Anti Commercial-AI license
If I have mastodon, how and when can I follow Blue sky users? I read something about an adapter server or something, but I don't know what that means in a practical sense.
Is there an easy to understand explanation to the differences of the AT Protocol and ActivityPub?
Sorry if this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but how do we know that BlueSky isn't padding their stats with internal bots? I could see this being a viable strategy to attract users and overcome the social network bootstrapping problem.
I really really don't like the app

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