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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Until they sell that platform too and you have to grow your follower base somewhere else yet again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Bluesky has federation in testing in a sandbox open to external developers, already interoperating with 3rd party implementations

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

has federation

Hahaha, no. It's like MTProto in Telegram, but without being honest that it's centralized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Every single component have 3rd party implementations or an alternative which doesn't depend on them (standard account DID lookups go through their servers but web DID is fully independent). The options he says nobody will create ALREADY EXISTS

The protocol literally doesn't allow them to be gatekeepers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The protocol literally doesn't allow them to be gatekeepers.

Authentication is heavily tied to their servers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can initialize your account with your own DID key using web DID instead of the current (technically placeholder DID) and you won't be dependent on their servers for authentication. Especially in the federation sandbox that's available for 3rd parties

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what you say I can approximate how it will go. First perpetual in-dev federation, then once they get enough people, they will say "not enough interest in federation" and stop development or pull the plug completely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Except federation is already functional with 3rd party implementations. Sure it's possible they would choose to diverge in the official implementation in a closed branch, but that would not stop the rest of the clients from working. It's like if the biggest Mastodon instance went proprietary and shut down federation, the people who care would leave.

The main things they're working on are moderation tools suitable for federation as well as scaling

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