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They're missing the boat so much, they're getting record usage https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/22/bluesky-saw-record-usage-after-elon-musk-announced-plans-to-ch

• jazzyjackson 3y ago
  > That rush of new users had even prompted Bluesky to halt new user sign-ups for a time as the website buckled under the influx of traffic. When you have to close the gates due to not being able to handle the demand, I would consider that missing the boat. Fact is there's still one team in charge of who gets an account, not very distributed of them. On one hand I don't want to dismiss the teams effort, I can appreciate going slow and doing it right, but as far as I'm concerned the whole twitter genre of social media is a little played out, we're not going to see the enthusiasm or growth that we did 10 years ago, all they can do is siphon users from the other twitter clones.
• lylejantzi3rd 3y ago
  Did you read the article? Bluesky has <1 million DAU. Mastodon has 8 million DAU. Threads went from 50 million DAU to just under 10 million DAU. Twitter has 237 million DAU. "Record usage" for them, yes, but nothing compared to the others. It's not even competitive with Mastodon.
  • rvz 3y ago
    > Mastodon has 8 million DAU. Source? Given the MAU is 1.7M [0] I have not seen a single source for this claim that the DAU is 8 million. [0] https://joinmastodon.org/servers https://joinmastodon.org/servers