Incredibly impressed with how this team of 20 has been able to scale with this explosion of growth. Early adopter and it's good to see BlueSky getting competitive in this race.
For comparison Twitter has 586 million MAUs. So Bluesky is at 3% assuming all those are active. In terms of HN posts over the last 3 days (excluding posts about itself) it's 47-2 in favor of Twitter. Which sounds bad but it's a whole lot better than the ghost town that is Threads which has 0 and way more "users." So definitely on a better than the last "Twitter killer" but I'm still not betting on it.
Threads never had a chance. No one wanted to hand Meta another community to exploit. I think the big difference this time is I am seeing a critical mass of big accounts start to shift with Major News Orgs, Kelsey Hightower, Emily Freeman, Steven King and others exiting Twitter. Tech BlueSky is starting to look a lot like what Tech Twitter used to pre-Leon. Content is king and content is moving.
who are these people?
People that are important to some. For amething like Twitter, a personal connectin, the who is just as if not more important than the what.
A couple of years ago it was Mastodon with the explosive growth.
RSS feeds everywhere please return. The distributed web, the federated web, a turning point. Perhaps.
I think we all agree on that RSS feeds are great, but I don't really see how that's related to Twitter alternatives.
A lot of us didn't jive with the UI/UX of Mastodon
Plus it has some bizarre expectations, e.g. where users were expected to accept abandoning all their old posts when migrating servers…
Cool to see the growth. I have a minor suggestion: while the spinning counter showing "Estimated growth: 123.5 users since last update" is cool, it would make more sense to only show an integer here, since users can presumably only join in increments of 1 and not fractions.