On the topic of Bluesky stats, I just learned that blocks are effectively public via the API, so there's a hall of shame ranking the most blocked users on the site: <a href="https://vqv.app/blocks.html" rel="nofollow">https://vqv.app/blocks.html</a>
Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control.<p>It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago.<p><a href="https://joinmastodon.org/" rel="nofollow">https://joinmastodon.org/</a>
The infrastructure has been rock-solid. I’ve never seen a service grow this fast without any noticeable outages. The architecture and execution are obviously informed by serious experience at Twitter, but it’s also clear that management is giving them everything they need to do the job right.
It’s definitely a whole different platform now, compared to when the first exodus happened. I’m loving it!<p>The “starter pack” feature is great. There’s also this website where you can browse created starter packs for groups/interests you care about: <a href="https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all" rel="nofollow">https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all</a>
As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media.<p>One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.
No surprise as to why Bluesky is taking off, despite calling it years ago. [0] Now it has 18M+ users with 9M MAUs and 3.3M DAUs [1] after removing the invite system.<p>The familiarity is easily transferable for a migration from Twitter / X. If you know how to use Twitter / X then you know how to use 90% of Bluesky.<p>No need to 'choose an instance' or some admin shutting a server down due to 'other reasons' unlike with Mastodon or an arbitrary blackbox algorithm that limits / hides your posts found in Threads or needing a Meta account.<p>Bluesky has learned from the mistakes of others to start first with a default server approach, you choose your own feed + algorithm and a search functionality that (works) can find accounts across the platform.<p>Simple.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750185">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750185</a><p>[1] <a href="https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...</a>
Gratz to the blue sky team, it’s very hard getting a social media app to gain traction.<p>However, after messing around with twitter and mastodon, I really do not get the appeal. All the incentives are not to have meaningful conversation, rather it is all about engagement.<p>It’s way too much noise and not for me.
Does anyone know any good makers I can follow on there? I'm mostly interested in making stuff, less in monetizing stuff, so I don't want to follow so much entrepreneurs (ie people who like making stuff to make money) as makers (ie people who like making stuff for its own sake). Any good lists?<p>If anyone wants to follow me on there, I'm @stavros.io.
Back in the news net days, there used to be a parable about a Berkeley hot tub. The owner would give out the code to people, and it would be a good party with a rotating cast of characters for a while, until eventually a few people ruined the party. Then the code would change, and a different crew would start coming through.<p>Pre-Elon, it seemed that Twitter was doing a pretty good run of keeping a single social network running for a long time. As has Facebook.<p>But for lots of dedicated communities, the new owner has such direct contempt for them and has focused on ruining the party.<p>Bluesky will work for now. Already science Twitter is having a huge renaissance now that links are no longer suppressed and discussion has lower noise:<p><a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-151688877" rel="nofollow">https://substack.com/home/post/p-151688877</a>
Am I missing something, or is the heading misleading. Where is the 1M gained users a day?
I see statistics on likes, followers etc. Nothing here shows gain in 1M user accounts a day.
I joined yesterday. And I was never an enthusiastic Twitter user. I did have an account, however. One by one my followers (admittedly, just a few people, and all friends) were sending me a note to say they were dropping Xitter and not just unfollowing me.
Related ongoing thread:<p><i>We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159454">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159454</a> - Nov 2024 (62 comments)<p>Also:<p><i>Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159713">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159713</a> - Nov 2024 (153 comments)<p><i>The Bluesky Bubble: This is a relapse, not a fix</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156907">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156907</a> - Nov 2024 (48 comments)<p><i>Consuming the Bluesky firehose for less than $2.50/mo</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42152362">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42152362</a> - Nov 2024 (58 comments)<p><i>Maybe Bluesky has "won"</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150278">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150278</a> - Nov 2024 (743 comments)<p><i>Watch Bluesky's explosive user growth in real time</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147497">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147497</a> - Nov 2024 (11 comments)<p><i>How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147430">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147430</a> - Nov 2024 (50 comments)<p><i>1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42144340">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42144340</a> - Nov 2024 (124 comments)<p><i>Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129768">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129768</a> - Nov 2024 (44 comments)<p><i>Ask HN: Will Bluesky become more popular than Twitter?</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129171">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129171</a> - Nov 2024 (13 comments)<p><i>Visualizing 13M Bluesky users</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118180">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118180</a> - Nov 2024 (236 comments)<p><i>Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42112432">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42112432</a> - Nov 2024 (168 comments)<p><i>How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086596">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086596</a> - Nov 2024 (79 comments)<p><i>Bluesky's AT Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080326">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080326</a> - Nov 2024 (60 comments)<p><i>Bluesky Is Not Decentralized</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952994">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952994</a> - Oct 2024 (194 comments)<p><i>Bluesky Reaches 10M Accounts</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41550053">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41550053</a> - Sept 2024 (115 comments)
Why isn’t there an app that just posts to blue sky mastodon and twitter? I find it annoying that companies and some gov depts post on twitter only and for some reason I keep needing to verify my account so I can’t ever see a chronological timeline
I was skeptical but I just opened it and the UI does look cleaner and less bloated than X. However, UI is fixable and what matters more is content. There needs to be a compelling reason to switch, and I don't see one yet.
finding the same ppl on bluesky needs work, and it's not a job i'm going to do. if twitter decays, good; i will get rid of my last social media app.
Does anyone else have issues with the data privacy side of things? I'm not really feeling the "everything is public" aspect of the AT protocol.
I'm a 100% lurker and it's such a nicer experience before any enshitification.
It probably won't last forever, but no ads or spam, and simply seeing a feed of accounts I follow is all I want.
No one has called me a shitlord, cuck, idiot, or otherwise implied I’m stupid for the entire time I’ve used it. It’s great. The tech community on there is really solid, at least insofar as my interests go.
but i'm already on X, I just can't make a move just because of decentralization or "toxic" environment everyone talks about. It has a lot more content and the people I follow are all here.
What's preventing everyone from putting their faith in another broadcast medium just to have it sold to Elon again? It's hard to trust social media these days. They have 0 incentive to be "good" from a variety of perspectives not just political.