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Scaling is hard. What Meta did with 100 million users off the bat and basically no downtime or issues (Instagram had problems intermittently, but now fixed I be

Scaling is hard. What Meta did with 100 million users off the bat and basically no downtime or issues (Instagram had problems intermittently, but now fixed I believe), is not something Bluesky can do. So they'll likely be conservative. Also if they open, it won't be exactly now, because they're waiting for the hype around Threads to die a bit and people to start saying "Threads sucks I uninstalled it" and so on. Which some people will inevitably do, no matter if Threads is successful or not.

xelia 3y ago
I think Threads appeals to a different set of people than BlueSky - or at least a different side of a person. The lack of anonymity with Threads makes it a completely different experience for me. So I wouldn’t really say they’re competitors.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  This is the ideal scenario, where if we'll be getting fragmentation due to Twitter outflow, at least it leads to specialization for different optimal scenarios. Human identity is important in order to reduce astroturfing which has reached critical proportions and is literally defining and destroying businesses, political regimes and so on. So the interest in abusing anonymous accounts, fake accounts, AI accounts, is great. But anon accounts are also needed. Having distinct platforms, one that focuses on human identity and decency, corporate cleanliness & user friendliness, and one that focuses on anonymous accounts, decentralization, power users, but may also come with trolls, abuse, scams... seems like a nice duo.
- vitorgrs 3y ago
  You can be anonymous on threads. Both on Threads and Instagram. Only on Facebook you can't, I believe.
paxys 3y ago
Can Bluesky do it for 100K users though? Because that would still be a good start. And if they can't then they need to rethink their engineering strategy.
- vitorgrs 3y ago
  Don't BlueSky already have like, 200k users?
  - 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
    They have a over a million now.
    - vitorgrs 3y ago
      Is there any tracker? I Know that there's on Mastodon and Threads...

xelia 3y ago

I think Threads appeals to a different set of people than BlueSky - or at least a different side of a person. The lack of anonymity with Threads makes it a completely different experience for me. So I wouldn’t really say they’re competitors.

3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
This is the ideal scenario, where if we'll be getting fragmentation due to Twitter outflow, at least it leads to specialization for different optimal scenarios. Human identity is important in order to reduce astroturfing which has reached critical proportions and is literally defining and destroying businesses, political regimes and so on. So the interest in abusing anonymous accounts, fake accounts, AI accounts, is great. But anon accounts are also needed. Having distinct platforms, one that focuses on human identity and decency, corporate cleanliness & user friendliness, and one that focuses on anonymous accounts, decentralization, power users, but may also come with trolls, abuse, scams... seems like a nice duo.
vitorgrs 3y ago
You can be anonymous on threads. Both on Threads and Instagram. Only on Facebook you can't, I believe.

paxys 3y ago

Can Bluesky do it for 100K users though? Because that would still be a good start. And if they can't then they need to rethink their engineering strategy.

vitorgrs 3y ago
Don't BlueSky already have like, 200k users?
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  They have a over a million now.
  - vitorgrs 3y ago
    Is there any tracker? I Know that there's on Mastodon and Threads...