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Bluesky has already missed the boat. Unless musk publicly sets fire to a kitten or something, the mass migration is over, and they missed it.

by vGPU 3y ago

graypegg 3y ago
There is a pretty active community on Bluesky itself, I think they caught a much smaller, but maybe sustainable boat? I'm liking at least, but the invite-only bullshit is wearing thin. But would I be alright with it at it's current size/user make-up? Yeah totally. (but I'm also not paying for it...)
- Kye 3y ago
  They took $8m in funding already. Slow, steady, and stable might not be enough now. Those investors will want to get their piece sooner or later. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-seed-round-first-paid-service-custom-domains/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-s...
  - dvngnt_ 3y ago
    8 mill not that huge
    - Kye 3y ago
      Fundraising has a way of escalating until they've given away so much control that they have no choice but to grow. What do you think happens when the $8m runs out and they still haven't found a way to fund it? Twitter took decades to just barely figure it out on the back of a generational crisis that kept a lot of people inside wasting time on social media. The whole concept of federation is that most of the users are on other people's servers, so an ad-based solution isn't as obvious. They can't count on all those eyeballs being monetizable if they're serious about the AT protocol.
ralphc 3y ago
Ok I'll bite. If the mass migration is over, where did they migrate to? Was it one place or did they scatter to bluesky, mastodon, others?
- vGPU 3y ago
  Nowhere, apparently. Twitter number of active users hasn’t taken a hit. Personally, I believe a lot of people are just sick of social media in general. When Reddit started turning to garbage some 3-4 years back, I started looking for alternatives. Found none. Slowly used it less. By the time the recent drama hit, my usage of it was already almost 0, and dropped to 0. Took a peek at the alternatives, judged them to be a waste of time and attention, and that was it. The niche that Reddit filled is dead for me.

Bluesky has already missed the boat. Unless musk publicly sets fire to a kitten or something, the mass migration is over, and they missed it.

by vGPU 3y ago

Bluesky has already missed the boat. Unless musk publicly sets fire to a kitten or something, the mass migration is over, and they missed it.

graypegg 3y ago

There is a pretty active community on Bluesky itself, I think they caught a much smaller, but maybe sustainable boat? I'm liking at least, but the invite-only bullshit is wearing thin. But would I be alright with it at it's current size/user make-up? Yeah totally. (but I'm also not paying for it...)

Kye 3y ago
They took $8m in funding already. Slow, steady, and stable might not be enough now. Those investors will want to get their piece sooner or later. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-seed-round-first-paid-service-custom-domains/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-s...
- dvngnt_ 3y ago
  8 mill not that huge
  - Kye 3y ago
    Fundraising has a way of escalating until they've given away so much control that they have no choice but to grow. What do you think happens when the $8m runs out and they still haven't found a way to fund it? Twitter took decades to just barely figure it out on the back of a generational crisis that kept a lot of people inside wasting time on social media. The whole concept of federation is that most of the users are on other people's servers, so an ad-based solution isn't as obvious. They can't count on all those eyeballs being monetizable if they're serious about the AT protocol.

ralphc 3y ago

Ok I'll bite. If the mass migration is over, where did they migrate to? Was it one place or did they scatter to bluesky, mastodon, others?

vGPU 3y ago
Nowhere, apparently. Twitter number of active users hasn’t taken a hit. Personally, I believe a lot of people are just sick of social media in general. When Reddit started turning to garbage some 3-4 years back, I started looking for alternatives. Found none. Slowly used it less. By the time the recent drama hit, my usage of it was already almost 0, and dropped to 0. Took a peek at the alternatives, judged them to be a waste of time and attention, and that was it. The niche that Reddit filled is dead for me.