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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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[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Strange to measure it against an invite only site, I would love to sign up but I haven’t been able to find invites. I think between Mastodon, Bluesky & Threads via ActivityPub (eventually) will get most of my communities back.

I love Mastodon & prefer it in many ways but there just aren’t enough people there. The tech & dev community is lively, everything else is essentially non-existent.

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

It's a convenience article. They're just reporting some number they have access to.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And why Threads instead of Mastodon if you belive it will use ActivityPub.

The tech & dev community is lively, everything else is essentially non-existent.

Broners are pretty active there. Biggest instance is equestria.social, some people use or run smaller instances, some use GP instances.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Threads has momentum and easy signups, it’s simple for people. I wouldn’t use it myself directly but I’m sure it would help expand the communities that are available via a Mastodon client.

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

Do you want one? I have a spare.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, that would be amazing. Thank you!