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I feel like this would have been a lot more impactful a year ago, when the Twitter drama was in full swing.

Feedback: the homepage looks more like a tech product pitch site, and the announcement post also doesn't look very polished. I guess the target for Bluesky isn't so much the "regular Facebook/Twitter/IG user", more the nerd.

Side question: what's the interop story between Bluesky and Mastodon now?

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> I guess the target for Bluesky isn't so much the "regular Facebook user", more the nerd.

I think it's more "regular Twitter user". It has implementation details that interest nerds, but my read is that the target audience really is regular users.

There is some work by others to make this possible:

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed

Afaik no interop - they use different protocols.

I am not sure, during the Twitter drama was in full swing Meta tried to launch an alternative, and how long did it last? A couple of weeks? I think social sector is filled, with boomers on facebook, cool people on instagram, kids on tiktok, woke on twitter, meme people on reddit?

> Meta tried to launch an alternative, and how long did it last? A couple of weeks?

If you mean Threads, it's currently up to 130M monthly active users[0]. Estimates for Twitter late 2023-early 2024 are between 350-400M MAU.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/threads-now-reaches-more-1...

Ah okay, didn't know that, I've read some time after the launch that it was going desert, somewhere on an article linked here, I am not a social network person, so wasn't following it

Who are these users? I haven't heard a single person talking about actually using Threads.

Well to be fair it was very half baked and it was really anti Twitter, it was just Instagram in text, which exactly what twitter users don't want.

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