Bluesky grows to 9M+ users
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Bluesky grows to 9M+ users
In other words, the social platform’s user base has grown by around 50 percent in the week or so since a Brazilian court banned X (formerly Twitter).
The ban sent Bluesky to the top of the free iPhone app charts in Brazil, where it’s currently ranked number two, behind Meta’s competing app Threads.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/07/bluesky-grows-to-9m-users/
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Graham Downsreplied to Roni Laukkarinen last edited by
@rolle Time to post about Bridgy Fed again?
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Roni Laukkarinenreplied to Graham Downs last edited by
@GrahamDowns Yeah or re-post. I've done it multiple times, but for some reason people are not very into enabling it. Opt-in is a very limiting thing and seems to not work in practice. What's the point if only 0.1% enables sharing?
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Graham Downsreplied to Roni Laukkarinen last edited by
@rolle Agreed. I'm not a big fan of opt-in. First, you have to know that the thing exists, which isn't a very easy thing to achieve because it requires the creator to expend an inordinate amount of time and energy (and possibly money) marketing that thing. And even then not everyone who might be interested in it are likely to hear about it.
Secondly, you have to know enough to be able to appreciate the potential benefit, which you might not immediately understand, particularly if you're not tech savvy.
Third, you have to take the time to go and do it, and not put it off for later, because we all know that when you put something off for later, you're probably never going to do it.
Much simpler to just enable it for everyone by default, and then periodically tell them how to opt out if they want to.
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Aslak Raanesreplied to Roni Laukkarinen last edited by
@rolle @GrahamDowns One could add brid.gy to the bluesky onboarding list or starter pack as they call it https://bsky.social/about/blog/06-26-2024-starter-packs
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Aslak Raanes last edited by
@aslakr @rolle @GrahamDowns is that created by BlueSky themselves?
If so, unfortunately with the way they have a habit of muddying their own definitions of things to confuse people into thinking *everything* there is BlueSky owned, I doubt they'd add something like BridgyFed to this list.
It will make people aware of Fediverse and why it's a better system for some and might cause people to actually come to Fedi proper.️
One could hope though.
One could also hope that Ryan, creator of BridgyFed, would ignore the Fedi scrutiny and turn off the opt-in bullshit and actually make it opt-out like the rest of Fediverse.
He said it's a possibility, but I won't count on any of these things and just feel like we'll never actually get to full cross platform open communication.
Even with Threads, they admitted it'll probably never happen, which is quite sad.
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Aslak Raanesreplied to BeAware :fediverse: last edited by
@BeAware @rolle @GrahamDowns Bluesky's starter pack are made by users themselves when inviting others.
This is also feature I would like to have on Mastodon, especially for smaller language (and other) communities.
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Aslak Raanes last edited by
@aslakr @rolle @GrahamDowns thanks for the clarification!
Seems cool and definitely useful.
Admins could add specific accounts to the recommended list, but that's a bit "out of the way", hard to find, and specific to every instance.
A way for normal users to make things like this across instances would be quite nice.
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@GrahamDowns @rolle I don‘t understand this line of argument: I thought on current implementation opt in follows a request, ie someone on Bluesky wants to follow your fedi account. If you don‘t ‚know‘ about opt in it‘s because nobody has expressed an interest on Bluesky in seeing your content, no?