Bluesky Crosses the 15 Million User Mark (theverge.com) 5
Bluesky has reached 15 million users, driven by a recent surge in U.S. signups following the presidential election. It's currently the top free app on iOS. The Verge reports: The platform, which rests on the decentralized AT Protocol, added about a million new users in the last week. Bluesky COO Rose Wang recently told The Verge that the "majority" of new users flocking to the platform have been from the US. Meta's Threads is still outpacing Bluesky, having recently hit 275 million monthly users and growing at a rate of over a million signups per day. But Bluesky offers a very different experience. Both are ad-free (for now), but whereas Threads uses a single Meta-made algorithmic feed, Bluesky offers user-created algorithmic feeds in addition to its "Discover" and "Popular With Friends" ones.
What is it? (Score:2)
Re: (Score:1)
In a nutshell, it's the latest social media echo chamber for people who have become disenchanted with previous echo chambers, and are fleeing to a place where they don't have to be exposed to others with differing opinions. Think of it as "Truth Social", except with different politics.
What it does share in common with all other social media echo chambers it that it was created to monetize its users. So if you want to go play
Its all the same garbage. (Score:2)
What is the tech fascination with these nothing websites?
There's no new here. It's all just the same tired social media bullshit. Another ivy league hacker trying to monetize stupid people.
It even looks the same.
Ah, glorious ... (Score:1)
... herds of threaded mastodons, running off into the blue sky ...
Still not a thing, but hey, smoking all that copium can give you visions.