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Yes but mars man bad.

Ergo if everyone who hates mars man proclaims that the alternative to mars man website is “the next big thing” and “exploding in popularity” loudly and often enough, then maybe it will actually become popular outside the mars man bad crowd.

You know it’s manufactured when news outlets are comparing App Store download rankings of X and BlueSky. The new app versus the one that’s been around for nearly 20 years and already present on most devices it ever will be.

Meanwhile in the real world nobody has heard of BlueSky or really cares that people they’ll never interact with no longer get banned for being bigots on X.

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Change doesn’t happen all at once, right? Bluesky may still not have the mindshare — but two weeks ago they were 3-4 coin flips away from unseating Twitter, and now they only need one more. That they could become the leader in their category was unthinkable, and now it’s not.

Besides, 25 million users is plenty already.

That reads like massive cope.

Twitter fundamentally offers no killer feature. Being "around for nearly 20 years" means nothing.

> Twitter fundamentally offers no killer feature.

Less censorship is a pretty important feature

Censorship isn’t absent from Twitter. Quite the opposite.

Twitter is all about censorship. That's its core feature now. Intimidation has been engineered into the platform. Suppression of unpopular or marginal opinions that don't align with the owner has been systematically added to the platform. Try typing the word 'cis' into the platform.

A really killer feature for me is not being bombarded by racist, sexiest, homophobic, and transphobic drivel. Twitter doesn’t support this feature; it’s all but impossible to avoid all that crap on that platform.

Post "cisgender".

Bluesky also has the "less censorship" feature :D

When people say censorship in regard to Twitter they just want to be shitty to people. Just post on 4chan what’s the real difference?

Twitter is a cesspool.

It does when you’re talking about the number of recent App Store downloads.

Which I was.

It's still a factual statement to say it has a higher ranking and it's irrelevant to mention the 20 years thing. Someone said the car is the most popular vehicle in the last year and someone pipes up to say the horse and carriage has been around for three thousand years! Wow!

thanks you for this. I for one find your analorgy both highly apt and convincing!

You’re either being intentionally obtuse or unintentionally missing the point.

News outlets giddily claiming some newly launched FPS game is going to replace Counter-Strike because it had more downloads in a given week in 2024 would be a far more apt analogy and equally as absurd.

And yet, something having more downloads than the Old Thing, is one of the first signs. No need to fuss over it and get defensive.

The people active on Twitter are a small subset of "the real world", and the move to BlueSky is certainly very noticeable there. About 80-90% of people I was following on Twitter have a Bluesky account now, most of them are actively posting there. And this is not just a left-wing bubble, I mean I don't follow any Trump supporters but there are plenty of people in my feed that would usually be considered conservative.

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