A very healthy chunk is from Brazil, twitter got banned there due to musk being a stubborn child that doesn’t follow the law
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halm@leminal.space 2 months ago
To quote Life of Brian,
Splitters!
…assuming of course these are people who left the open Fediverse to join another corporate platform.
kaboom36@ani.social 2 months ago
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 months ago
At least Bluesky is decentralized and Open Source, isn’t it? While this is a conceptual step down from Fediverse, it’s still better than all the other alternatives in use. I don’t know how much the Bluesky company controls the entire platform, if its even possible.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 months ago
It’s technically decentralized, but functionally this doesn’t mean anything (yet) except for them not having to care about moderation.
It seems part of it might be open source, like the AT protocol, but not sure about all of it.
Corgana@startrek.website 2 months ago
It’s centralized and for-profit. They will have to do ads eventually or shut down.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
I don’t think we ever had 8 million people.
FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 2 months ago
More like bots, really. Threads had a huge user influx but also a ton of inorganic activity.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
More likely twitter users.
And yes it’s corporate which is less good than mastodon. But it is add-free, has a working algorithm, is feature rich, is open-source, lets you self-host etc. Full defederation is coming soon too.
DarthYoshiBoy@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I think the true genius of Bluesky is that it doesn’t have A algorithm, it has a framework that allows users to build their own algorithms, share them with others, and subscribe to the algorithms from people whose tastes you trust. They did the same thing with moderation making it possible to build your own moderation tools, share them, and use those constructed by others you trust.
It’ll be abused by the trolls who love the sound of their own voice and embrace the echo chamber of their choosing, but the flip side is that none of the rest of us have to suffer those idiots if we don’t want to. It’s not a perfect solution to the Paradox of Tolerance, but it’s good enough.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 months ago
There was lot of people recommending BlueSky over Fediverse, when the big hype happened. The biggest problem to me is, that this split up the user base considerably. Which in turn weakened its potential for both platforms to overtake Twitter.
Just under us: If you want so, we took Twitter over. It’s renamed to X. :-p …, nah, just joking, it’s still Twitter.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I mean thanks to bridgy you can communicate across blusky and mastodon.
And bluesky has gained 8 million users in the past year. I don’t think mastodon has even gained a million. So clearly the majority have gone to one.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I don’t know where you got that number from, but at least these statistics say Mastodon got 9 million users (but not all are active off course, same should be true for BlueSky): mastodon-analytics.com And this account claims 15 million: mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount and a Wikipedia article says “On 19 March 2023, Mastodon passed the ten million mark for registered user accounts”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)#2…
Now, I do not claim these numbers to be correct. But compared to your estimation its vastly different.
Hugohase@startrek.website 2 months ago
Comparing users to MAU seems disingenuous. The fediverse has ~12 million users fedidb and around 1.1 million active ones.
Most if them on Mastodon.
Shatur@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It requires to use a separate app like this which is not very convenient.