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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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[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not even Fediverse either. It's their own protocol. Can't even really federate much either.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have federation on in their sandbox network with 3rd party clients already working, but it's not going to talk activitypub

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Non-activitypub federated protocols? Who is even the 3rd party in this instance? Nostr?

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nostr is a wildly different protocol from atprotocol and activitypub.

Activitypub is very much like email (SMTP) over http, pushing messages between servers. Atprotocol is instead using a model of a repository with profile and posts per user on federated servers along with aggregation servers (CDN-ish) and a pull model for retrieval. Nostr is a P2P protocol with "gossip nodes"

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I more I learn about this stuff I can't see the purpose of this new protocol versus the existing ones (not to even mention all the activitypub/fediverse spinoffs too).

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Account portability for one thing, with accounts being defined by the DID and repository and not server name + path you can easily switch servers