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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago by LuuTuyen@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 33 points 2 days ago

Impressive, since "network effects" are what keeps people on a platform. Why move off Xitter or FB when everyone's on there, and not on the new place? Keep moving a significant fraction of a million people every week, and pretty soon, it'll be where everyone is.

My partner, who is very non-technical, signed up for a BlueSky as well this week: "all the teacher blogs have declared that they are moving over". Looks like everyone has had enough.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I might give Bluesky a shot, but it better not end up like f'n Reddit.

[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

It will be.

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I just made a new account on BS, I haven’t done anything at all yet, no comments, likes, etc. Immediately followed by a woman with an OF link in her bio. Is that not against the rules? How did she find my account?

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

You're just that hot 🔥

[–] mke@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

FWIW you can probably report that. While trying Bluesky, I reported some crappy stuff and I can't remember any that was still up when I checked later.

How did she find my account?

Just like Mastodon/AP, data is mostly public by default. I assume it doesn't take much to find new accounts to spam. We're usually talking about bots here, not normal user accounts, just to be clear.

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[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Oh hey I'm one of them!

[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But the format is open ass.

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