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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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[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 142 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Great another social media platform from the same fart huffing dumb asses that sold Twitter... it's like people don't learn lessons.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago

Americans be like "I like fascism I just don't like THIS fascism"

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

FYI jack isn't in control of the site and in fact even deleted his account after the userbase mocked him hard enough, he's all in on nostr now

Also it has federation in testing in a sandbox environment open to external developers, it will work similarly to Mastodon in that regard

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I learned today that you'd have to be confined in a small room with approximately a year's worth of farts before you risk asphyxiation.

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is a problem. Bluesky is privately-owned and will do same shit.

Here are some explainations. And more.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago

It's also controlled by another crypto shill, so it has that in common with Twitter too.

[–] flo24@lemmy.world 96 points 2 years ago (11 children)

isn’t bluesky invite only?

[–] PaulHulford@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Each current member usually get at least one invite to share biweekly. That’s how they have been growing it.

[–] PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Google+ did the same thing when it rolled out, then they tried to force people to use it before they cancelled the project.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

In fairness, Gmail had a similar invite system when it launched and that's been way more successful than G+

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Gmail was also both "federated" and an insanely good product compared to its contemporaries. G+ had a couple of interesting innovations, but it wasn't all that special and invite-only on a closed ecosystem is very iffy.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Gmail was literally the best. 1GB space at launch when you'd get a dozen MB in Hotmail and others, slick fast UI in a browser.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And you got more space the longer you had the account! Then everyone got the same no matter what. I was sad to loose all that free space.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Gmail was invite only at first probably because Google didn't want it to grow faster than they could buy hard drives. It gave you a gigabyte of email storage which at the time was huge. I'm certain they did that for technical reasons.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It gave you a gigabyte of email storage which at the time was huge.

You're right, but for those who may not know the details or the impact at the time, Google was offering 500x more storage - at the free tier - than some of the competition - hotmail - who were charging people for just 10 MB of storage. This forced hotmail to increase its free tier to 250 MB and 2 GB for customers paying $20 USD/year.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20230815014711/https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/hotmail-to-offer-250mb-of-free-storage/

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm still salty about that. Google+ was fantastic on release. Simple, clean, elegant, and fast. Then they steadily, systematically fucked it up. By the time it was cancelled, it had become unusable.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

G+'s downfall was they kept it invite-only too long. Demand was there, people wanted in but Google was like, "Nah..."

By the time it was open-access, everyone had moved on or back to their old social media platforms. It could've been great, but Google, in typical Google fashion, got distracted by something shiny and killed it.

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[–] ripcord@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It says that in the first sentence

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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago (26 children)

I wonder why people aren’t going for mastodon.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mastadon (and the Fediverse in general, to some extent) has problems with discoverability and the average user finds federation confusing. People tend to either use microblogging to see what's going on with people they're interested in or to broadcast their activities to a large group of people, and Mastadon currently doesn't fit that niche very well.

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[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The same reason people aren't going for Lemmy.

Aside from the fact that the Fediverse is an incredibly confusing concept to the average user, those same users are entrenched and connected to everyone they already want to be connected to on the same platform. Until they are essentially forced to move, they'll stay on Twitter. The people on Lemmy and Mastodon right now are a tiny but vocal minority compared to the massive userbases of the platforms they abandoned.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah there really needs to be a rethink of how the Fediverse works.

I don't want to have to subscribe to 8 different "Games" subs each with under 3000 users.

It really should be like "topics" more than "sublemmys" (or whatever) where every post on the Fediverse tagged "games" will appear on your feed when you subscribe to the topic.

The topics still get moderated by the local instance topic moderators and instances can defederate from troubled instances, but discoverability would improve exponentially.

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[–] WorldWideLem@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I was interested in it but at the end of the day Dorsey got Twitter into its initially mediocre state, and he's endorsed RFK Jr. as well as Musk's purchase of Twitter. So should I really expect it to be any better? I'll keep an eye on it but my expectations aren't terribly high.

[–] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and he's endorsed RFK Jr.

Gross. Yeah Dorsey sucks generally.

as well as Musk's purchase of Twitter.

But I don't hold this part against him. If some moron came along and offered to drastically overpay for my house, for example, I'd endorse the fuck out of that even if he's a shitheel.

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

Of course he's endorsed Musk purchasing Twitter, he made billions off it

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[–] kilorat@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago (27 children)

Excuse me, signups on an INVITE ONLY platform?

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[–] drdalek13@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 years ago (21 children)

I firmly believe Elon is trying to run Twitter out of relevancy, or business entirely.

[–] eee@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lose $42 billion speed run challenge

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[–] Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 43 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Always good to see more people looking into platforms besides Twitter, plenty of great places out there

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)

People are so desperate for anything RESEMBLING twitter, that they'll sign up for a trash service like BS.

Mastodon undoubtedly has more brand recognition at this point.

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Honestly, before reading this comment I never noticed that BlueSky shortens to BS, lol

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[–] qwertyWarlord@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't hold my breath, 42k out of 528M is nothing

[–] Venomnik0@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I'm so glad people are calling Bluesky out for the trash service it is. I just mastodon outlasts this crap and we get more people on there than bluesky

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[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~Who is the target audience for BlueSky?~~ BlueSky's tech isn't as open or developed as the alternatives though, is it?

Edit:
Not sure why I asked that first question, answer's obvious, so it was more out of frustration I think. Sort of in a similar way towards people moving to Threads or any other corporate social media again after getting screwed before.

[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

God I hope he gets gaslit into actually making Twitter a subscription. It would be so funny

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

Switch to Mastodon. It's a great alternative.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bluesky, the "decentralized" X-alternative social media platform

"The" alternative platform?? Shots fired.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 50 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] transistor@lemdro.id 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yes, I also want to know how it is affecting the Mastodon user base.

[–] 73rdnemesio 35 points 2 years ago

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount

You can see a spike in the last couple days. We went from about 30k/week to a 50k+ in this past week.

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[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Strange to measure it against an invite only site, I would love to sign up but I haven’t been able to find invites. I think between Mastodon, Bluesky & Threads via ActivityPub (eventually) will get most of my communities back.

I love Mastodon & prefer it in many ways but there just aren’t enough people there. The tech & dev community is lively, everything else is essentially non-existent.

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[–] shaolin_shrimp@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not sure if I’m getting suckered into conspiracy theories with regards to Elon, the Saudis, Russia and Twitter but this article has an interesting (albeit extreme) take on the matter.

“No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating.”

https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

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