Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public : technology

[-] [email protected] 107 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Exactly, they aren't.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 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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[-] [email protected] 84 points 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

relevant xkcd

[-] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago

Ahaha

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

And then onward to the extraterrestrial market!

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Goodbye Bluesky

[-] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 17 points 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That project is called Bridgy Fed.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 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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[-] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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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[-] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Engagement :

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 7 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!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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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[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 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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[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

That's what I was thinking... Here come the bots

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

What is it?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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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[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

If I'm understanding correctly this is from the guy who sold Twitter to Musk.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Heyyy…

chance of working?! Rude! :)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Lol so petty

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 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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[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

They have more posts than lemmy has active users. Nice

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 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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