Bluesky Grows to 30 Million Users. Threads Adds 20 Million More Just in January (techcrunch.com) 32
Star Wars star Mark Hamill, science fiction author William Gibson, XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe, and The Onion have joined millions of others bringing Bluesky's user count to 30 million, reports CNET. In fact Bluesky has added over 14 million users in the last three months, and for a few days in early November was adding over one million users a day. "That rate equals about 12 new users per second. The 30 million user mark compares to 9 million users in September."
But meanwhile Meta's social media site Threads — launched 19 months ago — "now has 320 million monthly active users," reports TechCrunch, "up from 300 million last month. The app had 275 million monthly active users in [early] November." That's a 16% grow rate in just three months. In comparison, Bluesky is experiencing a slowdown in growth, with an increase of less than 10% month-over-month in December 2024, following a remarkable 189% growth in November, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Bluesky now has a total of 26.44 million users. Additionally, Zuckerberg noted that Threads is adding more than 1 million daily signups [while presenting fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday].
But meanwhile Meta's social media site Threads — launched 19 months ago — "now has 320 million monthly active users," reports TechCrunch, "up from 300 million last month. The app had 275 million monthly active users in [early] November." That's a 16% grow rate in just three months. In comparison, Bluesky is experiencing a slowdown in growth, with an increase of less than 10% month-over-month in December 2024, following a remarkable 189% growth in November, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Bluesky now has a total of 26.44 million users. Additionally, Zuckerberg noted that Threads is adding more than 1 million daily signups [while presenting fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday].
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Not Twitter. People leaving Twitter because of musk.
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I am on X, and follow a number of accounts on both sides of the political spectrum. However, there are fewer and fewer posts from the left - indeed, apparently because they stopped posting and went elsewhere. Most likely because couldn't stand the fact that Musk is not politically on their side.
Honestly, it's pretty pathetic. Why is it that people cannot tolerate differences of opinion? Bluesky, by all accounts, is now a left-leaning refuge, and a couple of conservative folk I know were promptly banned for
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Even if a side won the "war" then you'd just start another one within the winning party. Lot of good that would do.
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I'd say we should bring the rhetoric down a notch or two because the opposing party isn't the nearly the devil they are made out to be. We'd be better off with more compromise and less theatrics and showboating.
I'm expecting to much out of people though.
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Also it's quite clear that Elon is a direct threat to the nation, so supporting him in any way is a non-starter for many. It should be for MOST.
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If a bar is full of Nazis, you stop going there.
Note also it's not just the left that's leaving, it's the non-extreme right as well.
Social media isn't simply about sharing opinions you might disagree with occasionally. I can have a discussion with a Bush-era conservative on some topics I feel very strongly about such as Bush's use of war or torture - which however awful was argued by right wingers at the time to be justified in terms of long term saving lives, etc. Most political discussions in the 2000s re
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He literally deletes accounts that say shit he doesn't like. Including right wing ones, while screaming about he's a free speech absolutist.
What he does though, is act like a butt hurt middle schooler - which is what you should expect from yet-another-textbook-narcissist. I've never used Twitter, or Facebook, or any of that other trash and I have no interest in Bluesky either.
I do recommend the LeopardsAteMyFace subreddit though. [reddit.com] It's absolutely overflowing with MAGA regrets and will likely remain so for
A Twitter Clone (Score:4, Insightful)
Would be nice if the fine summary mentioned what exactly this is.
It's a Twitter clone attempting to recapture the glory days of 2020, when all major social media networks could be counted on to participate in a widespread news blackout of an inconvenient national story.
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It's an alternative to X that is meant to be a place for Democrats to gather. Whether it proves to be helpful or hurtful to their cause, only time will tell.
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... leftist echo chamber ...
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Well, to be fair, Musk outed himself as a far right trash, making Nazi salutes and such. The US peak Zionist lobby fell over itself trying to say an arm gesture wasn't what anyone thought it was, only for Musk to double down on the cray cray by making corny jokes about Nazism.
Then there's speaking at a AfD conference.
So, yes, any decent human being would have left Twitter by now. Elon cancelled himself.
Another bubble... (Score:1)
I signed up, it seems useless (Score:2)
I don't care about trends or pop culture, I have specialized interests.
Bluesky appears to have very few who I find interesting.
Alternate platforms are fine for those who want mainstream crap.
Getting a critical mass of users in an obscure specialty is nearly impossible.
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And yes some of them have come back to do a little bribery but it'll be just enough to get attention from the administration. Not the
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So where we are now: Shitter still runs. Shitter still has users. Shit
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(Thing that is not X) is where radical leftists are going because they keep getting community fact-checked into oblivion.
Ever since X became a platform that lets users point a posts inconsistencies, lack of context, or most importantly, missing facts usually left out by someone trying to spin a narrative, I find myself going there to find out the truth of whats going. Yes, it still takes a good BS filter, but at least you can see the context and facts other users have pointed out are missing.
Looking at the leaderboard on community notes, most accounts I don't recognize at all but I see a few far right wing accounts and afaik no radical leftists https://community-notes-leader... [community-...rboard.com] This is no doubt due to a lack of knowledge on my part so I'd be most grateful if someone could point to the top 3 radical leftist accounts on that list? (Elon is #48).
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The zuck bent the knee and capitulated to the MAGAts not too long ago himself. The nastiness has already been spreading throughout Facebook. And with the zuck and the muskrat now united and goose-marching lockstep on the same side, united under their worship of and fealty to dear leader, what happens to threads? Is the zuck more of a capitalist at heart who will see a market niche and let threads remain a neutral and non-toxic alternative to the trumping propaganda machine that twitter/x has become and F