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I feel like this would have been a lot more impactful a year ago, when the Twitter drama was in full swing. Feedback: the homepage looks more like a tech produ

I feel like this would have been a lot more impactful a year ago, when the Twitter drama was in full swing. Feedback: the homepage looks more like a tech product pitch site, and the announcement post also doesn't look very polished. I guess the target for Bluesky isn't so much the "regular Facebook/Twitter/IG user", more the nerd. Side question: what's the interop story between Bluesky and Mastodon now?

angulardragon03 3y ago
Afaik no interop - they use different protocols.
lnxg33k1 3y ago
I am not sure, during the Twitter drama was in full swing Meta tried to launch an alternative, and how long did it last? A couple of weeks? I think social sector is filled, with boomers on facebook, cool people on instagram, kids on tiktok, woke on twitter, meme people on reddit?
- zimpenfish 3y ago
  > Meta tried to launch an alternative, and how long did it last? A couple of weeks? If you mean Threads, it's currently up to 130M monthly active users[0]. Estimates for Twitter late 2023-early 2024 are between 350-400M MAU. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/threads-now-reaches-more-130-million-monthly-users-says-meta-up-30m-from-q3/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/threads-now-reaches-more-1...
  - lnxg33k1 3y ago
    Ah okay, didn't know that, I've read some time after the launch that it was going desert, somewhere on an article linked here, I am not a social network person, so wasn't following it
  - piperswe 3y ago
    Who are these users? I haven't heard a single person talking about actually using Threads.
- jacooper 3y ago
  Well to be fair it was very half baked and it was really anti Twitter, it was just Instagram in text, which exactly what twitter users don't want.
jakebsky 3y ago
There is some work by others to make this possible: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed
Retr0id 3y ago
> I guess the target for Bluesky isn't so much the "regular Facebook user", more the nerd. I think it's more "regular Twitter user". It has implementation details that interest nerds, but my read is that the target audience really is regular users.

angulardragon03 3y ago

Afaik no interop - they use different protocols.

lnxg33k1 3y ago

I am not sure, during the Twitter drama was in full swing Meta tried to launch an alternative, and how long did it last? A couple of weeks? I think social sector is filled, with boomers on facebook, cool people on instagram, kids on tiktok, woke on twitter, meme people on reddit?

zimpenfish 3y ago
> Meta tried to launch an alternative, and how long did it last? A couple of weeks? If you mean Threads, it's currently up to 130M monthly active users[0]. Estimates for Twitter late 2023-early 2024 are between 350-400M MAU. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/threads-now-reaches-more-130-million-monthly-users-says-meta-up-30m-from-q3/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/threads-now-reaches-more-1...
- lnxg33k1 3y ago
  Ah okay, didn't know that, I've read some time after the launch that it was going desert, somewhere on an article linked here, I am not a social network person, so wasn't following it
- piperswe 3y ago
  Who are these users? I haven't heard a single person talking about actually using Threads.
jacooper 3y ago
Well to be fair it was very half baked and it was really anti Twitter, it was just Instagram in text, which exactly what twitter users don't want.

jakebsky 3y ago

There is some work by others to make this possible: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed

Retr0id 3y ago

> I guess the target for Bluesky isn't so much the "regular Facebook user", more the nerd. I think it's more "regular Twitter user". It has implementation details that interest nerds, but my read is that the target audience really is regular users.