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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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[–] shaolin_shrimp@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure if I’m getting suckered into conspiracy theories with regards to Elon, the Saudis, Russia and Twitter but this article has an interesting (albeit extreme) take on the matter.

“No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating.”

https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 16 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.

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 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

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

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

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 16 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.

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

Huh I wonder why

[–] NerdyPopRocks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

How the hell do you even sign up

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