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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)

submitted 1 year ago by geosoco@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.

Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform's entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.

The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website "Bluesky Stats." Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.

It's impossible to know whether Musk's comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bluesky, the "decentralized" X-alternative social media platform

"The" alternative platform?? Shots fired.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago

Serious question, why would you consider Bluesky? I would argue that mastodon is "the" decentralized social media platform, I mean it's not owned by some billionaire; and if you mostly care about audience size, nothing beats twitter. I've never felt any inclination to try bluesky for these reasons.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Glad cracker musk is losing money over this, I just wish people wouldn't just jump into the next boiling pot because the current one got too hot.

[–] nxfsi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But Twitter has been dead ever since threads took over...

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Huh I wonder why

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Why would anyone think Bluesky is any better than Twitter? There are no fundamental differences.

[–] Estiar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, if ~~Twitter~~ X keeps changing like it is, there will be a whole bunch of differences

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 10 points 1 year ago

It's not owned by Musk, which is what the average casual internet user is currently upset about with Twitter.

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[–] Zoness@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to like it but they refuse to open up the platform still after Twitter keeps handing them opportunity after opportunity and I'm afraid their chances to succeed are going to wane.

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[–] NerdyPopRocks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I do wonder how many are bots. Most of Twitter is bots anyway

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

How the hell do you even sign up

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

How do you sign up? I'm on the wait list for about a half year.

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