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I forgot about BlueSky since, around ~2 months ago, every last person I followed on there moved back (reopened) to Twitter due to the user number falloff... I a
by pathless 2y ago
I forgot about BlueSky since, around ~2 months ago, every last person I followed on there moved back (reopened) to Twitter due to the user number falloff... I am so out of the loop now
- melodyogonna 2y agoTwitter is very usable once you block Elon and the unhinged conspiracy accounts that he retweets.
- ivewonyoung 2y agoI frequently have the opposite problem where the algo is pushing liberal accounts tweeting $OUTRAGE_OF_THE_DAY
- almosthere 2y agoSame
- hbn 2y agoFor twitter being supposedly a right wing social media platform, the only tweets I see break 100k likes are extremely left wing political takes (and Elon's tweets cause he's almost surely gotten him to be artificially pushed in the algorithm). I've seen theories that there's like botting happening on those posts, and it kinda seems likely given how little real interaction they get.
- _bin_ 2y agoi notice the same thing. there are a handful of big rw accounts i've muted and no longer see but big lwers there always seem to be more. i also muted musk but periodically find my account has magically re-followed him, so i concur that there's almost certainly a special case in the code that artificially boosts/follows him.
- irelephant 2y agoThe algo is designed to surface accounts you may like to follow. Hence, its called "discover". You may enjoy a custom feed more.
- irelephant 2y agoIts like a hydra - more weird accounts pop up despite me blocking every one similar and pressing "not interested". Never had a similar problem on Bluesky.
- croon 2y agoI guess the people I follow either don't care about the numbers or didn't have that issue, but I'm finding more and more of the people I wanted to read from there everyday, and am enjoying it so much more after a year of engagement bait (or worse) on X. Bluesky to me is what Twitter was a few years ago, which (IMHO) is great.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoThey just crossed 33M users. Maybe your microcosm? https://blueskyusercount.com/ https://blueskyusercount.com/
- jazzyjackson 2y agoActive monthly is probably a tenth of that. I've made an account 2 or 3 times over the years but never find much to make me stay, I think I delete my accounts tho so I don't know if I'm in that stat.
- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://bsky.app/starter-pack/blueskywins.bsky.social/3ldfxnpinac2t https://bsky.app/starter-pack/blueskywins.bsky.social/3ldfxn...
- _bin_ 2y agowhy'd your parent comment get downvoted? 33mm users, <2mm daily likers, <1mm daily posters. as stated, less than a tenth of total user count. bluesky is a pretty niche bubble-y platform. so are mastodon et al. they're fine if you want to follow a specific group but they aren't even close to the reach of X/Twitter.
- pfraze 2y agoActive monthly is 12M so it's a third of that
- irelephant 2y agoClearsky.app reports 31m active. edit: Misinformation - number is actually 12m.
- microtonal 2y agoI think it really depends on the communities you are in. I use Bluesky mostly for ML stuff and Mastodon for more Unixy stuff and my Bluesky feed is quite lively with a good signal/noise ratio. I completely nuked my X account over a month ago, it was just drowning in ragebait and Elon posts (even though I don't follow Elon).
- irelephant 2y agoThats interesting, I have always got far more engagement on Bluesky than Twitter.
- harvey9 2y agoDepends on who you interact with. Some self-declared twitter-leavers never really left, others absolutely did.