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Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X (jewelcitytimes.com)

submitted 10 hours ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 26 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I sincerely doubt 1 million regular people a day are leaving Twitter.

We’re watching bot accounts be created at scale in real time.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I think "leave" is doing some heavy lifting, but I could see plenty of people creating accounts as the site reaches a large enough user base to attract the general public.

I saw a video recently of somebody talking about how they were posting the same thing on Twitter and Bluesky, and despite having a fraction of the followers on Bluesky, the post there had like 6x the engagement compared to Twitter. As they put it, "The creatives have moved to Bluesky."

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't think "creatives" are more active than anyone else. For the number of users, the threadiverse has a higher ratio of activity I think and it's generally more positive here than places like reddit. Maybe it's a similar thing. The demographic that are likely to move, are just making similar content and that makes it look more active.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 hours ago

I've heard of people having similar experiences on Mastodon as well. Seems like these smaller communities of early adopters tend to simply be more active and pleasant to interact with.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You underestimate the news cycle hitting regular folk who so far didn't know alternatives existed to twitter.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

Yeah once the mainstream media started picking up Reddit stories, that’s when Reddit started going to shit.