Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by pathless on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:18PM (#43366826)

I forgot about BlueSky since, around ~2 months ago, every last person I followed on there moved back (reopened) to Twitter due to the user number falloff... I am so out of the loop now

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by croon on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:23PM (#43366882)

I guess the people I follow either don't care about the numbers or didn't have that issue, but I'm finding more and more of the people I wanted to read from there everyday, and am enjoying it so much more after a year of engagement bait (or worse) on X. Bluesky to me is what Twitter was a few years ago, which (IMHO) is great.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by danieldk on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:25PM (#43366909)

I think it really depends on the communities you are in. I use Bluesky mostly for ML stuff and Mastodon for more Unixy stuff and my Bluesky feed is quite lively with a good signal/noise ratio. I completely nuked my X account over a month ago, it was just drowning in ragebait and Elon posts (even though I don't follow Elon).

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by irelephant on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:34PM (#43366996)

Thats interesting, I have always got far more engagement on Bluesky than Twitter.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by toomuchtodo on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:25PM (#43366897)

They just crossed 33M users. Maybe your microcosm?

https://blueskyusercount.com/

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by jazzyjackson on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:29PM (#43366957)

Active monthly is probably a tenth of that. I've made an account 2 or 3 times over the years but never find much to make me stay, I think I delete my accounts tho so I don't know if I'm in that stat.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by toomuchtodo on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:34PM (#43367001)

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

https://bsky.app/starter-pack/blueskywins.bsky.social/3ldfxn...

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by _bin_ on Friday March 14, 2025 @05:01PM (#43367267)

why'd your parent comment get downvoted? 33mm users, <2mm daily likers, <1mm daily posters. as stated, less than a tenth of total user count.

bluesky is a pretty niche bubble-y platform. so are mastodon et al. they're fine if you want to follow a specific group but they aren't even close to the reach of X/Twitter.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by pfraze on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:41PM (#43367057)

Active monthly is 12M so it's a third of that

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by irelephant on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:51PM (#43367173)

Clearsky.app reports 31m active.

edit: Misinformation - number is actually 12m.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by harvey9 on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:50PM (#43367156)

Depends on who you interact with. Some self-declared twitter-leavers never really left, others absolutely did.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by melodyogonna on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:21PM (#43366858)

Twitter is very usable once you block Elon and the unhinged conspiracy accounts that he retweets.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by irelephant on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:34PM (#43367005)

Its like a hydra - more weird accounts pop up despite me blocking every one similar and pressing "not interested".

Never had a similar problem on Bluesky.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by ivewonyoung on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:24PM (#43366894)

I frequently have the opposite problem where the algo is pushing liberal accounts tweeting $OUTRAGE_OF_THE_DAY

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by irelephant on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:51PM (#43367182)

The algo is designed to surface accounts you may like to follow. Hence, its called "discover". You may enjoy a custom feed more.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by hbn on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:34PM (#43367003)

For twitter being supposedly a right wing social media platform, the only tweets I see break 100k likes are extremely left wing political takes (and Elon's tweets cause he's almost surely gotten him to be artificially pushed in the algorithm).

I've seen theories that there's like botting happening on those posts, and it kinda seems likely given how little real interaction they get.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by _bin_ on Friday March 14, 2025 @05:02PM (#43367278)

i notice the same thing. there are a handful of big rw accounts i've muted and no longer see but big lwers there always seem to be more.

i also muted musk but periodically find my account has magically re-followed him, so i concur that there's almost certainly a special case in the code that artificially boosts/follows him.

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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by almosthere on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:28PM (#43366946)

Same

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