Bluesky now has 30 million users.
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What a bunch of dumbasses
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I never had a twitter account, not because of political beliefs but because the core of that social network is bullshit and the internet should be better than that.
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https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture
And reading an article from TechCrunch,
"The social network has a Twitter-like user interface with algorithmic choice, a federated design and community-specific moderation."
"Is Bluesky decentralized? Yes. Bluesky’s team is developing the decentralized AT Protocol, which Bluesky was built atop."
"However, the launch of federation will make it work more similarly to Mastodon in that users can pick and choose which servers to join and move their accounts around at will."
So it definitely is pitching that is it decentralized and federated. Maybe the argument is that it "will be", but at the moment it is not and at the moment it does not look like it will be an actual possibility.
Now people leaving Twitter is great, don't get me wrong, but it's possibly just kicking the can down the road. In a few years we'll likely have articles complaining about missing "Old Bluesky" and how "new Bluesky" has the exact same problems that "Old Twitter" had.
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Good, I don't need the mass. Social media is cancer anyways.
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The difference is that you can easily move to another Mastodon instance, and it's designed so that when you do that your followers / followees come with you.
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It's interesting what a bubble lemmy users are in. There is a reason it is not taking off and did not replace reddit for many people that tried it. It's way too daunting and confusing for the average user, same with mastodon.
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Except you can’t move your posts. Or, really, anything other than followers.
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True, and this is something that Bluesky actually seems to do better. Your posts are stored in a "PDS" (personal data store), so in theory they're not tied to any particular instance.
I hope that a future version of the Fediverse design / ActivityPub considers how to handle this issue. Still, I'd much rather lose my past posts than lose my social graph. Past posts can probably be archived, but it's much harder to track down people you used to be mutuals with on a different account and follow each-other.
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Roughly 10 million.
I would consider 1/3 a notable contender. Granted, only ~1 million of those users are active daily, but that's still very significant for a FOSS alternative.
EDIT: Source
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1/10th the US population! Fantastic!
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@RxBrad @mostlikelyaperson yeah, feel the same..
Well when I first start using facebook it was the same, the normies follow after if the platform is worth it -
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Man does not learn
