The day isn't even over yet Bluesky has already seen its biggest influx of new users in a single-day

Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.

Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform’s entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.

The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website “Bluesky Stats.” Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.

It’s impossible to know whether Musk’s comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.

      • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        9 months ago

        They have federation on in their sandbox network with 3rd party clients already working, but it’s not going to talk activitypub

          • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Nostr is a wildly different protocol from atprotocol and activitypub.

            Activitypub is very much like email (SMTP) over http, pushing messages between servers. Atprotocol is instead using a model of a repository with profile and posts per user on federated servers along with aggregation servers (CDN-ish) and a pull model for retrieval. Nostr is a P2P protocol with “gossip nodes”

            • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social
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              9 months ago

              Yeah, I more I learn about this stuff I can’t see the purpose of this new protocol versus the existing ones (not to even mention all the activitypub/fediverse spinoffs too).

              • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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                9 months ago

                Account portability for one thing, with accounts being defined by the DID and repository and not server name + path you can easily switch servers

    • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Everyone should defederate from bluesky

      They don’t use AP, so there is no federation to begin with.

    • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yeah and also Gmail should defederate Skype.

      … Wait what’s that it’s different protocols? Oh well