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by jacobgold 4mo ago
I'm not claiming to know what reality portends, but I do think my guess is about as good as anyone's. Bluesky did something ActivityPub/Mastodon never did, which is reach a mainstream audience of non-technical people. But its
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
Sure, it may overestimate the exact count, but that doesn't change the fact that tens of millions of real people have downloaded Bluesky and signed up. Right now, Bluesky has one large community, which is already great for some people
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
That's a fair distinction to make but my (educated) guess is that something like 95% of users have a single account on Bluesky. Most users signed up by downloading the app or visiting the web site and created a single account. As a poi
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
I was rounding up, the actual number is ~45 million: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats (these stats are based on real activity, not PLC identities) At current rate it will 50M in 6 months.
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
You still seem to be implying the number of real registered users on Bluesky isn't ~50M, which it is. The PLC identity spam you referenced is not being counted in this number.
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
Of course investors care about registered users, for the same reason I explained. But yeah, they do care a lot more about retention and growth rate for good reason. Bluesky Social, PBC has raised $120M+ dollars from investors.
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
Based on your comments, it seems like you're trying to spread FUD? The stats page you linked to explains exactly what's going on. These spam PLC identities have nothing to do with with the tens of millions of real Bluesky register
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
I'd be the last person to downplay the fact that the Bluesky app has a serious retention problem. But it has "broken through" in an incredible way and DAUs/MAUs are quite stable. Registered users is not at all meaningles
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
This is why your DNS hosting provider, despite not being the "current owner of the domain", being able to impersonate your site (terminate a cryptographically secure TLS session) with your customers is a similar problem. I do agre
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
Your DNS provider can obtain a TLS certificate for your domain and cryptographically impersonate https://yourdomain.tld It's not exactly the same thing but it's close.
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
You can also opt for a did:web identity using your own domain in which case did:plc is irrelevant to you. https://atproto.com/specs/did
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
You may have seen a temporary bug. It's completely straightforward and it works. Tens of thousands of users are doing it successfully. https://blue.mackuba.eu/stats/
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
Bluesky / AT is the most successful open social network in history and the only one to become culturally significant. It has been adopted by presidents, celebrities, journalists, and mainstream users. Bluesky has ~50M registered users
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
One of the core features of AT is the ability to move your repo hosting provider (PDS) at any time. This is the "data portability" problem that ActivityPub never solved. Bluesky Social, PBC runs a PDS service (bsky.social) for fre
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by jacobgold 4mo ago
No light theme though?
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None
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