The platform crossed the milestone last night, and it happened about a month and a half after the 25 million mark. Bluesky still has a long way to go to pass Threads, though; Meta’s platform has more than 100 million daily active users. [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lgu4lg6j2k2v]
  • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    215·
    1 day ago

    why are people frothing over Bluesky? this is just Twitter but owned by a different oligarch

    • Spezi@feddit.orgEnglish
      71·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, why would I use BlueSky when I could just use my favorite platform named Threads?

      Tap for spoiler

      Just kidding

      • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Same here… even when Twitter was not even in the sights of fElon I found it to be super toxic. I signed up because “it was the best way to get the news” and left in about 4 days

    • Uniformly9@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      32·
      1 day ago

      Because it isn’t just Twitter. Nobody can buy the network, the same way nobody can buy email.

      • Anyone can host a server.
      • Anyone can make an app.
      • Anyone can make an algorithm.
      • Anyone can make a moderation service. Users can freely pick a server, app, algorithm, and moderation service.
      • dnzm@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Yeah, no, not anybody can host a server. Sure, you can host a PDS, but the AppView still wasn’t open source last time I looked, and hosting a relay requires tens of terabytes of storage, not to mention the bandwidth to keep up.

        Meanwhile, people host actual activitypub instances on repurposed routers and their car entertainment system…

        • Uniformly9@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          14 hours ago

          Ngl thanks for the detail, I went and had another look so correct me if I’m wrong.

          So if we wanted to undermine Bluesky’s currently - hopefully temporary - centralised state, we would need multiple community modified PDSs, a widely rehosted open source AppView webapp & iOS/Android clients, a very expensive relay that is community controlled via non profit or something, and then we would be federated with each other and the bluesky infrastructure too?

          Sounds like a lot of work just to recreate the user-end functionality of ActivityPub :/ Very confused why they felt the need to invent ATProtocol? I have heard some vague praise of it over AP but I think I’m not technical enough to really properly make that comparison. It’s nice that ATProtocol gives you ownership of your data though.

          Perhaps Mastodon/ActivityPub-apps need to improve their onboarding process and user experience. Maybe include the custom feeds feature for Bluesky too. Something has to have gone wrong for Mastodon to have failed where Bluesky succeeded.