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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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[–] wjrii@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gmail was also both "federated" and an insanely good product compared to its contemporaries. G+ had a couple of interesting innovations, but it wasn't all that special and invite-only on a closed ecosystem is very iffy.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gmail was literally the best. 1GB space at launch when you'd get a dozen MB in Hotmail and others, slick fast UI in a browser.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And you got more space the longer you had the account! Then everyone got the same no matter what. I was sad to loose all that free space.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

“Never delete an email”. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IIRC, that was rolled out as a surprise after a few years. People were just like, "WTF, my capacity is getting bigger?". For a while there, Goggle could do no wrong from a marketing standpoint. That, uhh, changed.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Hotmail was 2mb.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 3 points 1 year ago

It was ad free which was amazing for a social media site at that time. No banners, no pop ups, just content.