X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by CPLX on Thursday July 10, 2025 @07:12AM (#44519660)

Bluesky seems to be doing reasonably well all things considered. It’s active and relevant. They also seem to have a pulse and ship new features.

Not saying it will emerge from being a niche thing and take over but it’s a pretty big niche. And Twitter is about half an inch from a platform ending meltdown at any time so it seems like the future isn’t yet set.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by 0_____0 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:09AM (#44521303)

I check in on bsky every now and then and I'm kind of surprised at how much is happening. My city posts bulletins there. I follow journos and some individuals I used to follow on twitter who migrated. There are shitposters. Idk why people think it's dead?

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by mapt on Thursday July 10, 2025 @03:28PM (#44524634)

Bluesky only has a future as a Twitter replacement. There are strong network effects favoring high utility of the dominant platform.

Take a look at the graph I linked. Threads drank Bluesky's milkshake.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by CPLX on Thursday July 10, 2025 @07:20PM (#44526805)

I have my doubts about how real that Threads traffic is. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an organic link to Threads or a business list a profile, I don’t even know what the icon looks like. Bluesky I am seeing all the time.

Maybe that’s just anecdotal but given how frequently meta tries to trick me into clicking on a Threads link I have my suspicions about all that traffic.

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