Bluesky’s latest signup surge continues.

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    10 hours ago

    I signed up and made a post. I was shocked and then amused when somebody actually saw my post?! It made me realize I don’t understand how to even use a Twitter type of social media. Do I just post my thoughts? What’s up with that lol

    I always just used Twitter as a way to see youtubers/streamers updates

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      5 hours ago

      It can be hard to bootstrap yourself up from zero followers. I’d recommend posting something just so that people have an idea of the kind of thing they can expect if they follow you from checking out your profile. But you probably won’t get much engagement from your own posts at first, so it will probably be more fun to just reply to other accounts.

      Bluesky has a feature where you can set up customized feeds to filter for any kind of content you want. The person who saw your post might have seen it in the “newskies” feed which just contains every first post that any account makes for example. So one way to get engagement can be to write posts that show up in a certain feed that people follow, like there exist some feeds that are based around certain topics that usually trigger based on your post containing certain keywords. Most people just use the following feed though, I think.

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    7 hours ago

    Does it still require SMS verification? Or was that lifted? That’s where I stopped my out-of-interest signup last time.

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    16 hours ago

    Good. Still not completely sure about moving from one corporate site to another, but good to see more and more people are moving away from Twitter.

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      9 hours ago

      At least BlueSky is built on a technology based on open standard protocol and is decentralized. Kind of similar to the goals of Fediverse / Mastodon. So I assume someone else can just create a server and join the network of BlueSky? I don’t know if this is possible. But in reality at the moment its controlled by only one big company.

      My hope is that they will one day cooperate with Fediverse, so it becomes read from and write to relationship.

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    21 hours ago
    • Bluesky: 15,128,928
    • Mastodon: 15,499,978

    Source: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats and https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount

    These numbers are to taken with a grain of salt. Mastodon in example can’t count all instances, because not all are federated. Also on both instances we don’t have numbers of active users per day or logged in at the same time. However Bluesky provides statistics beyond just the number of accounts. I’m not saying one is better or has more active users than the other, only that the total number of accounts can be misleading as much as the Megapixels count of your camera.

    Edit: I forgot there is another statistics displaying the number of active users for Mastodon: above 2.5 million users. Also it displays current Mastodon user count less than 10 million. Again either it counts it differently or it does not have access to the same instances as the other account has. Source: https://mastodon-analytics.com/

      • Dr. Bluefall@toast.ooo
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        51 minutes ago

        I’m wondering if that’s more for legal reasons than for technical ones. Then again, I’m not a lawyer, and you could probably get around it by directly using the AT Protocol.

        shrugs

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      21 hours ago

      And that’s why I like Bridgy Fed, I don’t really like BlueSky neither (except nuclear block), but thanks to the bridge I can still interact with my friends from my Fediverse accounts, something that wouldn’t be possible with Twitter for example

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    I’ve never used Twitter and have no interest in social media but I signed up for Bluesky because I have hated Twitter for 15 years. Also I appreciate that Bluesky has almost no data collection and no tracking. That’s cool.