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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)

submitted 1 year ago by geosoco@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

what the fuck is Bluesky

[-] mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

It’s Jack Dorsey’s “Twitter but federated this time”, except there is only 1 instance, run by Jack…. But don’t worry, “Trust me bro” it will totally be federated/open.

Maybe it will be but until it is it’s just as bad as Twitter.

[-] Rambi@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

So is it going to be part of the fediverse at one point or will it be a separate federation?

[-] amycatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

separate federation, they use their own home-grown protocol called ATProto

[-] Rambi@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Ahh as an alternative to Activity Pub or whatever it's called? That's a shame

[-] amycatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Ahh as an alternative to Activity Pub or whatever it's called?

Seems like it

[-] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

God.. I've been on the "fediverse" for months and

A: have no clue what it is

And

B: am not even entirely sure I'm on it anymore

Love Lemmy but lol this is getting confusing, is Mastodon on Lemmy or.. just federated or.. sheesh I need to search this

[-] jana@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

The fediverse is basically anything that uses some means of connecting to other sites. A lot of them now use ActivityPub, a standard for this kind of thing.

Mastodon isn't "on" Lemmy, but they can communicate with each other

[-] geosoco@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

It doesn't really matter. If you find value in using it, just keep using it.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That hasn't been specified, which suggests they're aiming for the latter.

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