Bluesky now has 30 million users.

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Man does not learn

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As a former mastodon believer, Bluesky is so much better. I'm sorry but the kind of content I wanted on mastodon was never there. Bluesky feels good. Things change, for sure. For now though? This is the best we have for a replacement for Twitter.

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Na, we are a reduct... it's a miracle we are on indexed web*

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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.

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I find Lemmy to be a better reddit alternative than Mastodon is a twitter alternative.

The lack of an infinitely scrollable algorithmic feed in Mastodon is definitely better societally, but let's be real, the algorithmic feed is just way more fun to scroll in blue sky.

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I tried to figure out Mastodon a few months ago. I'm with you.

Someone asked me to follow them on Mastodon. I couldn't find them in the app. He sent me the direct link and it opened up a browser on my phone, refusing to recognize the app.

I finally added them by remembering which server I was in, log into that, visiting their link again, adding them from my logged in server, and then it finally appeared in the app.

And if I'm dealing with thet level of monkeying around, how many others are? How the hell are we supposed to contribute and add content and find social circles when we're fighting with the UI?

Lemmy seems to have figured out how to not make a sucky experience with multiple servers.

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Bluesky has moderation lists that anyone can make and you can subscribe to them to choose what content you don’t want to see. It also gives you fine-grained control over the “default” moderation, allowing you to individually choose if you want to block nudity, threats, misinformation, spam, intolerance, etc.

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I think I might use both

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Is this 30 million accounts created? Active user numbers would be a lot more meaningful.

As an illustration, if you have a platform that’s gaining 100,000 users each month and losing 100,000 other users each month, it’s basically going nowhere. But it will eventually reach this “30 million users” milestone too if all it means is account creations.

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To anyone bemoaning BlueSky's lack of federation, check out Free Our Feeds.

It's a campaign to create a public interest foundation independent from the Bluesky team (although the Bluesky team has said they support them) that will build independent infrastructure, like a secondary "relay" as an alternative to Bluesky's that can still communicate across the same protocol (The "AT Protocol") while also doing developer grants for the development of further social applications built on open protocols like the AT Protocol or ActivityPub.

They have the support of an existing 501c(3), and their open letter has been signed by people you might find interesting, such as Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia).

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Yep, if even tech-savvy folks struggle with following people via links, the average user is going to feel totally lost. It's these minor UX issues that keep holding federated platforms back.

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I dont like either, but then again I couldn't get into twitter. The microblogging is not for me. I made accounts on mastodon, bluesky, pixelfed et al just to improve the numbers

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But with less people, the chance of you finding the subsets that interests you or fit your interests better is much lower, and that's one of the main issue.

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I feel like the reason the reason why it's taking off so much is because it's not federated.

It's like people hear the term federation and they get afraid. I know it's not that simple but still.

In other words, people don't know what they actually need.

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Active user numbers is probably less than 1 million, but still, 30 million accounts created is quite likely pretty good even if most of them aren't active.

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People are not afraid of the term “Federation.“ They literally have no clue what it is.

It’s the instance concept I find consistently to be an issue.

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Im one of them

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It’s something, but there’s really no frame of reference to know if it’s good or how good. Because few companies ever report this number. Twitter might have billions of accounts created if we look at all time.

Actives are what count.

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Yeah I was confused on if it was connected, if I was explaining it to myself id say that the fediverse has interconnected forums that all serve the same content and can be accessed by making accounts on different websites or apps.

Lemmy, mbin, piefed, etc. are all ways to access the interconnected forum/threads side of the fediverse.

Mastodon, sharkey, plaroma, etc. are all ways to access the interconnected microblogging slide of the fediverse.

They all have different features, like mbin has account reputation, piefed has topics which let you sub to multiple related communities at once, etc., but the content is shared between those that serve the same type of content.

Since they're all built ontop of the same protocol ppl can always come in and build on top of it or make hybrids while still letting everyone access the same content. Like mbin having both microblogging (tweets) and threads, letting you post and view both from the same account/website.

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Bluesky now has 30 million users.