Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week
www.theverge.com
There are now more than 14.5 million users total on the platform.
    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      698·
      9 days ago

      I think this is the crowd that tried Mastodon and then abandoned it when they realized it required a modicum of effort.

        • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
          353·
          9 days ago

          This man ran into the weirdos on Mastodon. I’m over there hanging out with people posting about ass-pennies and no one cries “content warning!” You’re the one who decides who you follow and who follows you. If your hanging out with folks too sensitive for your liking, that’s on you.

          • Uruanna@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            9 days ago

            I don’t even know what Mastodon looks like and I don’t know who the guy is, but I’m just assuming he’s lying because it sounds like the usual “crazy pronoun libs” dog whistle.

        • Sabata@ani.socialEnglish
          132·
          9 days ago

          Being complicated will keep the Facebook moms, and my casually racist uncle away.

      • mke@programming.devEnglish
        23·
        9 days ago

        I doubt this sort of attitude helps, too. Mastodon developers know at least some of its failings. Migrating to Bluesky is not effortless.

      • asudox@programming.devEnglish
        176·
        9 days ago

        Whatever will they do without algorithms recommending their low effort posts to other users?

        • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
          234·
          9 days ago

          This smug attitude is why the fediverse will stay niche. People get jobs from twitter and Bluesky showing their posts to people. Its why im on the platforms as an artist. But sure lets talk shit at everyone who doesnt want to post to the void on mastodon.

          Also your feed is chronological by default on bluesky and you can stay chronological and enable some posts from your custom feeds to show in your chronological feed. Best of both worlds

          • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3·
            9 days ago

            There’s a lot of artists selling stuff on Mastodon but I don’t think you can have a job as a mastodon influencer

      • ComradeMiao@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        9 days ago

        Honestly I can’t figure out how to find people I’m interested in… or maybe there isn’t much academic/buddhism stuff on there? :/

        • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          9 days ago

          You just search hashtags or set up a column so you have a feed giving you everything under a given hashtag, though it may be those communities are so niche there isn’t much on the Mastodon instance you chose. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a specific instance for Buddhism itself, though, given that it’s such a massive world religion.

    • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      10·
      9 days ago

      I just learned that before their fundraising round Bluesky called themselves a “public benefit LLC” and I thought thats nice of them to benefit the public 😅 , then I found out about US corporate law and what it actually means…