Bluesky now has 30 million users.
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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
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Na, we are a reduct... it's a miracle we are on indexed web*
*/j
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I've come to realize that bluesky already had all lot of what I'm happy to not see on masto. Good that there is a place for it to exist without me.
That content is also probably what the majority of people like about it.
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I love Mastodon as well... I also have a Proxmox server in my basement.
