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What social media platform has people flocking to open source platforms when it goes public? The most successful one I can think of is Bluesky, and it’s still s
by hhh 2y ago
What social media platform has people flocking to open source platforms when it goes public? The most successful one I can think of is Bluesky, and it’s still small enough that I wouldn’t call it flocking
- kelnos 2y agoI guess it depends on your threshold for "flocking". Certainly there are still a ton of people (and bots) left on Twitter (for example), but people did leave and go to Bluesky and Mastodon. And if the place people go to is a smaller player with comparatively not that many users, that influx can present scaling problems for them, even if it's a drop in the bucket for the platform they came from.
- Velorivox 2y agoBluesky also has the dubious distinction of starting at Twitter, having been founded by the Twitter founder, splitting off when the mothership got acquired.
- rsynnott 2y agoThat also wasn’t prompted by Twitter going public, it was prompted by Twitter going _private_. And Twitter’s self-immolation is… unusual in its scale and ambition.