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Another million users joined Bluesky today – could Bluesky spike spark end of X?

21 points by pms 2y ago

mtmail 2y ago
Related "Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159713
MilnerRoute 2y ago
Just to clarify... The article says "Bluesky claims one million users joined the platform in one day this week." I'm not sure it was today. (There might've been a spike earlier this week that has since started slowing down.) But what's more important is how the article also mentions Mastodon (plus Threads, Discord, and other alternatives.) I really think what this all points to is a growing need for fediverse-enabled social sites... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
- pms 2y ago
  At least two days in a row now, including today: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lb3qyu64bs2z https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lb3qyu64bs2z
the_third_wave 2y ago
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- quickslowdown 2y ago
  Are all of your takes this reductive?
- pms 2y ago
  Betteridge's law sounds intriguing, but according to studies it doesn't hold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines#Studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- chomp 2y ago
  I don’t want anything except posting with my friends and CNCF crowd without having to deal with the worst people in my feed. If someone tells me to kill myself because I posted about inclusive tech, I want the report dealt with. If I reply to an open source maintainer, I don’t want to have to also see people calling them awful names just because they may be trans. I want to be able to block the worst people who gripe about genetics and technical acumen. And I definitely do not want Elon injected into my feed. You can’t virtue post about hosting differences of opinion here. This isn’t “well, I like Python and don’t like your Node.js but I’ll fight for your right to hold your opinion.” This is (should be) objectively vile stuff. Bluesky gives me all of this. X is a chore.
- happytoexplain 2y ago
  Why write in this style on HN? It's demoralizing. Avoiding this is why I don't use social media in the first place (regardless of hypothetical political bias).
grahamj 2y ago
Oh I hope so
jauntywundrkind 2y ago
https://bsky.app/profile/martin.kleppmann.com/post/3lb3xtbfvn22o https://bsky.app/profile/martin.kleppmann.com/post/3lb3xtbfv... is a Martin Kleppman post, showing an old screen grab from ExTwitter metrics of them doing 20k likes/s. Bluesky has been doing around 700/s. So, ~2^5 away. Not bad!
blastonico 2y ago
Koo, Threads, Mastodon, and now the new X killer is Bluesky. What's next? Suggestions: - x++ - y - x# - X rewritten in Rust
nathanaldensr 2y ago
Just because people are joining Bluesky doesn't mean they're leaving X.
- Zigurd 2y ago
  Technically correct, but on Bluesky there are lists of the kind of people who. like what X has become, so that they can be blocked en masse.
pms 2y ago
Why this got flagged?

21 points by pms 2y ago

Related "Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159713

MilnerRoute 2y ago

Just to clarify... The article says "Bluesky claims one million users joined the platform in one day this week." I'm not sure it was today. (There might've been a spike earlier this week that has since started slowing down.) But what's more important is how the article also mentions Mastodon (plus Threads, Discord, and other alternatives.) I really think what this all points to is a growing need for fediverse-enabled social sites... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

pms 2y ago
At least two days in a row now, including today: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lb3qyu64bs2z https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lb3qyu64bs2z

the_third_wave 2y ago

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quickslowdown 2y ago
Are all of your takes this reductive?
pms 2y ago
Betteridge's law sounds intriguing, but according to studies it doesn't hold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines#Studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
chomp 2y ago
I don’t want anything except posting with my friends and CNCF crowd without having to deal with the worst people in my feed. If someone tells me to kill myself because I posted about inclusive tech, I want the report dealt with. If I reply to an open source maintainer, I don’t want to have to also see people calling them awful names just because they may be trans. I want to be able to block the worst people who gripe about genetics and technical acumen. And I definitely do not want Elon injected into my feed. You can’t virtue post about hosting differences of opinion here. This isn’t “well, I like Python and don’t like your Node.js but I’ll fight for your right to hold your opinion.” This is (should be) objectively vile stuff. Bluesky gives me all of this. X is a chore.
happytoexplain 2y ago
Why write in this style on HN? It's demoralizing. Avoiding this is why I don't use social media in the first place (regardless of hypothetical political bias).

grahamj 2y ago

Oh I hope so

jauntywundrkind 2y ago

https://bsky.app/profile/martin.kleppmann.com/post/3lb3xtbfvn22o https://bsky.app/profile/martin.kleppmann.com/post/3lb3xtbfv... is a Martin Kleppman post, showing an old screen grab from ExTwitter metrics of them doing 20k likes/s. Bluesky has been doing around 700/s. So, ~2^5 away. Not bad!

blastonico 2y ago

Koo, Threads, Mastodon, and now the new X killer is Bluesky. What's next? Suggestions: - x++ - y - x# - X rewritten in Rust

nathanaldensr 2y ago

Just because people are joining Bluesky doesn't mean they're leaving X.

Zigurd 2y ago
Technically correct, but on Bluesky there are lists of the kind of people who. like what X has become, so that they can be blocked en masse.

pms 2y ago

Why this got flagged?