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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by geosoco@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.

Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform's entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.

The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website "Bluesky Stats." Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.

It's impossible to know whether Musk's comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.

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[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 162 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Great another social media platform from the same fart huffing dumb asses that sold Twitter... it's like people don't learn lessons.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 year ago

Americans be like "I like fascism I just don't like THIS fascism"

[–] Natanael 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

FYI jack isn't in control of the site and in fact even deleted his account after the userbase mocked him hard enough, he's all in on nostr now

Also it has federation in testing in a sandbox environment open to external developers, it will work similarly to Mastodon in that regard

[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

"Mr Dorsey, ypur new platform is picking up, people are starting to use it"

"... I'm bored"

"Excuse me?"

"I don't want to have a social platform. I just want to make them" *Starts to leave*

"Mr. dorsey? Where are you going? Jack!?"

[–] uis@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Federation", yeah...

it will work similarly to Mastodon in that regard

Nope, it works more similar to MTProto for Telegram.

[–] Natanael 5 points 1 year ago

Uhm no not at all, 3rd party servers already exists and people can talk across them, telegram has no relevance here

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I love that I mentioned fart huffing and you automatically assumed I meant Jack.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I learned today that you'd have to be confined in a small room with approximately a year's worth of farts before you risk asphyxiation.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Not my farts, that'd only take about a month