Breh have at it, you obviously have a lot staked in this new app because you the only one posting updates
i post updates on new technologies like general fediverse developments including threads.
Bluesky signups up 60%
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i post updates on new technologies like general fediverse developments including threads.
The Prince of All Saiyans
Formerly Jisoo Stan & @Twitter
How do I only get new posts when opening
Space Cowboy
Allahu Akbar
Just sign up 
Bluesky is having a moment... on Threads
Bluesky seems to have a bold new strategy to entice potential new users: posting on Threads.
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Bluesky is having a moment... on Threads
The rival app has been trending on Threads amid rising complaints about Meta's moderation policies.
karissa bell
Senior Editor
Thu, Oct 10, 2024, 6:24 PM EDT·3 min read
Bluesky and Threads
Bluesky seems to have a bold new strategy to entice potential new users: posting on Threads. The rival social media service joined Threads amid a surge in complaints from users who are increasingly frustrated with Meta’s policies.
While complaints about Meta’s policies aren’t a new topic, they’ve gained new prominence over the last week amid complaints about the surge in engagement bait on the platform, as well as Threads’ sometimes inexplicable content moderation decisions. Meta exec Adam Mosseri, who runs the Threads app, has said the company is looking into both issues. But in the meantime, there’s been an increase in discussions about Bluesky, the decentralized service that has a very different philosophy when it comes to algorithms and moderation.
On Wednesday, Bluesky created an account on Threads, and promptly began pitching itself as an alternative platform for those frustrated with Meta. The strategy seems to be having an effect. “Bluesky” has been a trending topic on Threads for two days in a row and, at the time of this writing “Bluesky vs Meta moderation” was trending on the platform.
“We're not like the other girls... we're not owned by a billionaire,” Bluesky wrote in a post Thursday. “Your social experience should be yours to customize, not bent to the whims of whoever the owner of the platform is.”
While not the first time Bluesky has lightly trolled a rival (see its X post from earlier this week), the company is seizing on genuine frustration among Threads users. Besides the complaints about blatant engagement bait in their feeds, users have been questioning Meta’s seemingly aggressive moderation tactics on Threads. The company already throttles political content on the app, has taken a heavy handed approach to moderation of the service, according to many users. A number of people have reported having posts actioned by Meta for using the word “cracker” or “saltines,” as The Verge points out. Social media consultant Matt Navarra shared that he was penalized for sharing a BBC article about the viral “goodbye Meta AI” hoax on his Threads account.
Bluesky, on the other hand, has taken a much more flexible approach to content moderation. It puts most decisions in the hands of users, who are able to decide what kind of content they want to see or not, and allows users to run their own moderation services. “We're always doing baseline moderation, meaning that we are providing you with a default moderated experience when you come in [to Bluesky],” Bluesky CEO jay Graber told Engadget earlier this year. “And then on top of that, you can customize things.”
Whether the new attention on Bluesky will result in a significant number of departures to the service is so far unclear. Bluesky currently has about 10.8 million users, according to a dashboard tracking its growth, And while it’s not clear how many new people arrived in the last couple days, it suggests there’s been a bit of a surge over the past month as Bluesky previously grew to about 8.8 million users immediately following the shutdown of X in Brazil last month.
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App Version 1.92 is rolling out now (1/5)Pinned posts are here! Plus lots of UI improvements, including new font options, and the ability to filter your searches by language.
Open this thread for more details.
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Half a Million Users Flooded to Twitter Competitor After Elon Musk Handed Creeps the Keys
Frank Landymore
Updated Fri, October 18, 2024 at 3:22 AM EDT·3 min read
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Surprise, surprise. X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk is implementing yet another brain-meltingly dumb change to his social media platform by rendering the block function completely pointless and opening the floodgates for even more harassment.
In its new form, "blocking" someone still allows them to view your posts and your profile, tearing down an important way for some users to protect themselves against abuse on the site.
And it appears that for many users on the fence about staying on the site, this was the last straw.
Right after the changes were announced, BlueSky, a competing platform founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, proclaimed that it had received more than 100,000 new users. Barely twelve hours later, that tally climbed to half a million, the company said Thursday — and it's not showing signs of slowing down.
In fact, the influx of signups grew so feverish that the website temporarily experienced an outage.
Bluesky, for its part, is relishing in rubbing in Musk's blunder.
"At Bluesky, we take online safety seriously," the social media platform's official account wrote on X. "If you want to block someone, you can!"
This is definitely not the first time that there's been an exodus of Twitter users under Musk's leadership. A similar wave of people tried to join Bluesky the moment it hit the Apple and Android stores last year. And in general, X's user base has been steadily declining since his takeover.
But the single most impactful incident was probably Musk's dispute with Brazil's top court, which led to Twitter being banned in the country after the billionaire magnate refused to comply with a judge's orders to remove accounts accused of spreading misinformation.
Musk blinked first and eventually complied to get the ban lifted. But the damage was done: Bluesky gained over three million new users within days of the ban, the overwhelming majority of whom were Brazilian.
Such is Musk's proclivity for shooting himself — and his businesses — in the foot, while handing his competitors an advantage. Bluesky developers even reportedly have a name for when one of Musk's decisions leads to a deluge of newbies, according to journalist Joshua J Friedman: an EME, or "Elon Musk Event."
In a long list of questionable stuff Musk has done with the platform, the change to the block function is definitely up there. The feature will now only prevent blocked accounts from liking, replying, and reposting your tweets. But if your account is public, they can still see anything you post.
This is a decision that Musk has been mulling over for at least a year, tweeting last summer that blocking, in its typical form, "makes no sense."
We're now getting treated to some additional insight as to why that's the case. Apparently, it's the people who are doing the blocking that are the real problem, because they can use the feature "to share and hide harmful or private information about those they've blocked," the platform's engineering team tweeted.
People who would rather not get harassed or stalked see it differently. Blocking is pretty much the only tool for people to protect themselves against malicious individuals on social media. While users facing a barrage of harassment on X still have the ability to go fully private, some need to stay public for job reasons. Now, those accounts have lost a useful way to stay under the radar.
ExodusNirvana
Change is inevitable...
Because that's what it is
You can tell because everyone who is on Twitter but also bluesky is some combination of old unfunny liberal CAC or one of their "POC" pets
Go ahead...check the replies of the people who are on both. Usually some kind of hyper liberal, climate change, men with dikks are women types who are posting from an iPhone or an MacBook...rose in their Twitter handle cosplay Socialists too
AStrangeName
Member of Snitch Syndication
If you think that half a million artist dipping is bad due to the force generative ai, wait until next month when the nullified blocking goes into effect. That might cause even more people to leave.
Bluesky Post Count and Author Stats
Aggregate stats for all posts in Jaz's Bluesky index.
WARNING: Since the recent massive influx of activity, the only accurate stats are for the total number of users and may not be updated as regularly.
Users12,649,876
Total Posts486.16M
Total Follows477.24M
Total Likes1.925B
Uchiha God
Veteran
how is it doing?
AStrangeName
Member of Snitch Syndication
The platform is seeing more people coming over since the election and I've notice that even some companies are making accounts over at Bluesky, too
