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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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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that's why I'm wondering how the heck are they signing up

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Users who already have accounts on Bluesky get access codes they can give out to others over time. You don't even need to open the app to earn access codes. You just need an account.

Basically, as the devs let more and more people in, the platform will experience exponential growth. If the devs let in one person, that one person can let in 5 more in just 2 months time, and those 5 can let in 5 more each, and so on.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why the hell Bluesky is still invite only is beyond me. They killed their hype during the most important time, during multiple Twitter exoduses. People wanted to swap to it but couldn't. They were so desperate that Threads got 100m users really quick, just because people so badly wanted a Twitter alternative. Invite only doesn't even provide any benefit.

[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bluesky doesn't apparently have all the user safety tools that it needs before opening the flood gates.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Wow we have a lot in common, neither does Lemmy lol

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Artificial scarcity.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's the only real reasons anybody goes the invite-only route, (that and extremely lazy moderation) it's mainly to create FOMO for popularity. That's also why they aren't publicly visible and require you to login to view posts.