Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public : technology

[-] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 106 points 9 months ago

That's to be expected. What remains to be seen is how many of them will stick around after the initial surge.

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago

Im more curious how many are bots made to look like its booming with traffic

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago

idk. After they dropped invite codes, they started requiring phone numbers for sign up.

[-] SnotFlickerman 12 points 9 months ago

Because those aren't incredibly easy to spoof or anything?

[-] deur@feddit.nl 16 points 9 months ago

Exactly, they aren't.

[-] loki@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

I registered with a VoIP number that a free app gave me. I doubt they're blocking all the freely available "temp sms" numbers out there.

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[-] bort@feddit.de 81 points 9 months ago

oh nice. If this trend continues, they will be by 4 million tommorrow and 20 million next week and by summer every human on earth will have an account.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 57 points 9 months ago

You’re now a moderator of c/capitalism & c/investing

[-] dukk@programming.dev 25 points 9 months ago

relevant xkcd

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 39 points 9 months ago

Ahaha

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[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

And then onward to the extraterrestrial market!

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[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago

Yeah, no thanks. I'm good with Lemmy and Mastodon.

[-] doctortofu@reddthat.com 18 points 9 months ago

Same - I was mildly curious to be honest, but not nearly enough to give them my phone number.

[-] NoRodent@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Goodbye Bluesky

[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 47 points 9 months ago

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[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

It's in sort of a weird intermediate space - it does have a federated protocol, but currently the main bluesky server is the only thing on it.

[-] abrahambelch@programming.dev 33 points 9 months ago

Yeah so effectively not federated. Pretty sure they're not actually interested in federating anyway

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago

It's supposed to happen relatively soon I think https://bsky.social/about/blog/11-15-2023-toward-federation

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

As I understand it thats just federation within their own protocol, however I have seen on Mastodon a group of devs working on bridging the protocols. My canary in the coal mine for Bluesky is how the treat that dev team and so far it seems they're just letting them do their thing.

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That project is called Bridgy Fed.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Oh that's wonderful that the idea is getting recognition like that.

[-] sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

They started moving people to the Federated server last year to test things. I didn't see this article but people were openly talking about moving over on Bluesky. So thanks for posting this because I always see people say it's not getting Federated on Lemmy, but see people on Bluesky say it is, confusing.

[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

It seems like the people running it are pretty ideologically committed to the federation concept, I'd be surprised if it was never implemented. They seem to hope it will resolve some of the moderation problems that plagued twitter.

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[-] newproph@sh.itjust.works 37 points 9 months ago

whoever made that graph needs to learn how to properly space their horizontal axis labels

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

How quickly will it become a serious contender against Twitter?

I'll stick with lemmy, but I'd love to bathe in some schadenfreude at musks expense.

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[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 23 points 9 months ago

Engagement :

"Hello world!"
"Hi"
"Welcome"
"Hi"

[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

That's the beauty of it already being a thriving forum before opening up to the public, there's a lot of ongoing content beyond people logging on and saying hi for the first time.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 22 points 9 months ago

While some may see this as good for Bluesky, I bet this is the floodgates opening to bots and algorithmically boosted harmful content. Good luck everyone on there!

[-] H_Interlinked@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Threads default settings are like an open fire hose of rage bait and negativity spraying directly into your face. It's pretty wild without some manual feed pruning.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've been using Mastodon and it's a pleasant change of pace. I've heard of some spam happening there but I think responsive admins and the lack of algorithmic feeds really reduces their reach.

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[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago

All the algorithms on bluesky are optional, there's both official feeds and a lot of 3rd party feeds (and they don't run on view counts!), so there's no trivial way to game the algorithms to reach the userbase

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[+] Konstant@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

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[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

Meaning Jack Dorsey? He had some involvement in starting bluesky but is more pushing his own "nostr" site, and has had a hilarious arc of being ever more hostile to bluesky and its left-leaning userbase.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

Heyyy…

chance of working?! Rude! :)

[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Lol so petty

[-] s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 16 points 9 months ago

Twitter was a publicly traded company when he bought it and Dorsey only had like 2% of shares by then.

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[-] UristMcHolland@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

What is it?

[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What is bluesky? Basically a twitter clone that was spun off as it's own thing by the twitter team that was working on federation when Musk took over. It's pretty good if you liked the pre-Musk twitter vibe or a slightly smaller scale and leftier version of it.

https://bsky.app/

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[-] Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ah yes another commercial social media platform taking the first steps in the enshitification process. We've seen this all before in the early days of other platforms before the decay sets in.

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

They have more posts than lemmy has active users. Nice

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

As if they didn't learned their lessor with Twitter.

[-] fr0g@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

I'm curious what lesson learned from twitter easily also applies to bluesky, as that's genuinely not very clear to me.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That going into corporate, VC funded, centralization focused and privately controlled social network is not good long-term idea.

Myself I have nothing against profit itself, but the relationship of how single entity can manage network.

[-] fr0g@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

But they're (allegedly soon) federated and say they want to give control of the protocol over to an independent standards body. So like, half of the stuff you're saying might not even really apply here.

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[-] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

I don't understand the categories' purpose here. Can't someone be all three? Or are they presented as a hierarchy, like "likers" have liked but not followed or posted, "followers" have followed someone but not posted, while "posters" have posted?

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