Bluesky: Social media site reports surge in new UK users after Elon Musk's riot comments

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Emperor@feddit.uk⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://news.sky.com/story/bluesky-social-media-site-reports-surge-in-new-uk-users-after-elon-musks-riot-comments-13196374

Social media platform Bluesky says it has seen a surge in signups in the United Kingdom in recent days.

Since X owner Elon Musk made controversial comments about the riots in the UK, a number of influential figures said they would leave the platform or scale back their use, including home office minister Jess Philips.

Now, Bluesky says it has seen a 60% jump in general activity from accounts in the UK, with several MPs also joining the platform recently.

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“For 5 out of the last 7 days, the UK had the most Bluesky signups of any country,” said Bluesky in a statement on Monday.

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Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They’ll not learn.

I may be preaching to the converted but his about some Mastodon love as there are plenty of UK instances:

mastodonapp.uk

mastodon.org.uk

mastodon.me.uk

cupoftea.social

Not sure why there isn’t a London-based Instance called Tooting.
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Streamwave@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Neither Mastodon or Bluesky ever really clicked with me, although I’ve tried and will continue to use both, but I enjoy using Threads because there’s so much cool non-political content there. My feed is archaeologists or astronomists, historians writers and photographers. It being able to connect up to the Fediverse is cool too.

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- blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  It being able to connect up to the Fediverse is cool too.
  
  Didn’t a huge majority of the fediverse defederate from Threads?
  
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  - Streamwave@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah probably. Most ‘big’ accounts aren’t on Mastodon anyway though, they’re on Threads.
    
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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Bluesky is amazing. I switched there from mastodon as the experience just feels better with a cool vibe. And it’s FOSS decentralised just like mastodon.

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- arudesalad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I use it as well. People hating it completely is weird. I get that for profit is stinky but most people don’t complain about that, they complain about it using a different protocol. As long as it is foss, (which it is) using a different protocol is fine, especially because their whole point of developing their own protocol is to achieve feature parity with Twitter
  
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  - FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Do you have a link to a non blue sky blue sky instance for people to jon?
    
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