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Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by readbeanicecream@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, is pausing new signups “temporarily” to try and resolve performance issues it’s been experiencing after Twitter introduced limits on the amount of tweets you can see in a day. Even though you still need an invite code to be able to join Bluesky, it seems that the influx of new users has been a problem.

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[–] falsem@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone that had never used Twitter, why use this over Mastodon?

[–] beefcat@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Presumably, discovery is a lot better.

Having used both Twitter and Mastadon, discovery on Mastadon is essentially impossible. You have to already know who you want to follow, there is no mechanism in place to help you actually find content you might be interested in.

[–] blackdragoness@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This makes me feel better. I thought it was just me having a terrible time trying to find content on Mastodon.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Since you are the algorithm for what you see instead of the system, you do have to put in some work to find content that interests you. But it is possible and rewarding when you do. Assuming microblogging is of interest to you of course.

[–] UnelectedReimu@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Something that makes it a bit easier to discover new accounts is to join a medium to large server, and look at posts from the local and federated timelines. I know it's not as easy as an algorithm-powered timeline