That's to be expected. What remains to be seen is how many of them will stick around after the initial surge.
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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Im more curious how many are bots made to look like its booming with traffic
idk. After they dropped invite codes, they started requiring phone numbers for sign up.
Because those aren't incredibly easy to spoof or anything?
Exactly, they aren't.
I registered with a VoIP number that a free app gave me. I doubt they're blocking all the freely available "temp sms" numbers out there.
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oh nice. If this trend continues, they will be by 4 million tommorrow and 20 million next week and by summer every human on earth will have an account.
You’re now a moderator of c/capitalism & c/investing
And then onward to the extraterrestrial market!
Disco Stu would be proud.
Yeah, no thanks. I'm good with Lemmy and Mastodon.
Same - I was mildly curious to be honest, but not nearly enough to give them my phone number.
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Goodbye Bluesky
whoever made that graph needs to learn how to properly space their horizontal axis labels
How quickly will it become a serious contender against Twitter?
I'll stick with lemmy, but I'd love to bathe in some schadenfreude at musks expense.
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While some may see this as good for Bluesky, I bet this is the floodgates opening to bots and algorithmically boosted harmful content. Good luck everyone on there!
All the algorithms on bluesky are optional, there's both official feeds and a lot of 3rd party feeds (and they don't run on view counts!), so there's no trivial way to game the algorithms to reach the userbase
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That's what I was thinking... Here come the bots
Threads default settings are like an open fire hose of rage bait and negativity spraying directly into your face. It's pretty wild without some manual feed pruning.
I've been using Mastodon and it's a pleasant change of pace. I've heard of some spam happening there but I think responsive admins and the lack of algorithmic feeds really reduces their reach.
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What is it?
What is bluesky? Basically a twitter clone that was spun off as it's own thing by the twitter team that was working on federation when Musk took over. It's pretty good if you liked the pre-Musk twitter vibe or a slightly smaller scale and leftier version of it.
Bsky.app
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If I'm understanding correctly this is from the guy who sold Twitter to Musk.
Meaning Jack Dorsey? He had some involvement in starting bluesky but is more pushing his own "nostr" site, and has had a hilarious arc of being ever more hostile to bluesky and its left-leaning userbase.
Twitter was a publicly traded company when he bought it and Dorsey only had like 2% of shares by then.
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Ah yes another commercial social media platform taking the first steps in the enshitification process. We've seen this all before in the early days of other platforms before the decay sets in.
They have more posts than lemmy has active users. Nice
I don't understand the categories' purpose here. Can't someone be all three? Or are they presented as a hierarchy, like "likers" have liked but not followed or posted, "followers" have followed someone but not posted, while "posters" have posted?
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