Comment on Bluesky adds 8 million users in last ten months.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 months agoThere 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.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Even if your numbers are true. Mastodon has existed for 7 years. Bluesky for less than one.
So logically the precentage of users to active users should be much higher on mastodon.
(Also number of accounts is possibly a bad metric to judge mastodon because of the federation).
I have 8 mastodon accounts (tried a couple different instances and programmed a couple rss bots to give me a news feed).
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 months ago
That doesn’t matter, because most users just came in the last year. Just shortly after Mastodon begun to explode in 2023 from 2 million to over 10 (and now seemingly over 15 million) registrations, Bluesky came in. So the 7 years comparison doesn’t matter here.
Probably, but without statistics its just our gut feeling. And as you saw a few minutes ago, your gut feeling can be drastically wrong. My point was not here to race count Mastodon vs Bluesky, but to point your estimation of Mastodon accounts being vastly underestimated.
According to Wikipedia Bluesky has 10 million users and 5 million monthly active: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky That would be about what Mastodon has, if we believe those numbers. My point is, you totally over estimate Bluesky and underestimate Mastodon. The exact numbers does not matter here, what matters is my point that the user base is split into these two worlds.
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.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
True. So both have around 10 million total users. Bluesky has no monthly active user statistic. But around 1 million daily posters according to this bsky.jazco.dev/stats
While Mastodon has ~1 million monthly active users.
So sounds like bluesky’s got a lot more activity with that many daily posters, as of now, anyways.
Shatur@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It requires to use a separate app like this which is not very convenient.