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22 million users
This kind of thinking frustrates me, creating a good social media site/service should not be about inifinite growth or numbers games, it should be about creating a good and sustainable community, something so far I have only seen some of fedi try to do.
Commercial social media only cares about numbers, not sustainability nor creating a decent community.
I'm sorry but that is cope. Imagine if someone said that in the time of telephone?
Oh sure you can't call much of anyone who aren't on your street but making a good telephone network isn't about numbers and infinite growth.
We know of network effects and critical mass. It would have been great if mastodon could have resolved its unacceptable idiosyncrasies to capture the death of twitter. Looks like we now have to wait for the death of bluesky in 2036 for the next try.
I read Chris Webber's essay and I kinda agree. Bluesky is really just another twitter.
That being said I think we are entering into an era of diversification, not perhaps how we would like (through federation) but rather, through people understanding finally that the platform itself is making a choice in what kind of content it serves. We used to have this idea that the platform was just a "neutral third party" like a phone company. But in fact, it's a publisher with its own editorial line. It pushes that line through algorithms and what voices it wants to amplify or suppress.
As people understand this more, they are going to be much more critical of not just "the media" but also "the platform" and why it chose to show that media to its audience.
It's more like a better Twitter
Mastodon and Xitter are missing a lot of the quality of life features of Bluesky.
These things make Bluesky very easy to get started with and more powerful even than Xitter was. It's simply a better product if you have any requirements other than federation. Getting a good feed up and running doesn't take more than an hour or two. It's basically possible now on Twitter and it's very difficult on Mastodon.
Yes, its federation is more or less bullshit, but for most users, that feature is a distant priority when compared to the rest.
There is a blog post from 2023, but worth reading in case you don't know it:
If only running an appview didn't require VC level money... I mean it's still way better than twitter, twitter would have never allowed fed.brid.gy or alternative clients and whatnot but it would still be nice if there was more than one service on the protocol
I wonder how many independent bluesky servers there are.
There are currently zero bluesky servers that aren't fully dependent on bsky.app.
i'm not sure about how many PDSes there are exactly, but according to stats there are around 500 active users not on the BlueSky's flagship PDS
22 million users. 2700 million likes. 122 likes per user?
That engagement ratio seems a little off?
It could be bots and such, but if you take into account that probably every comment or post (I dont exactly know how the plaform works) gets a self-like, it's easy for this number to be high. The other person that replied to you, has around 110total likes just from comments/posts and it's been around less than a month.
So, if the platform has self-likes, it could be possible🤔
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Omg literally me