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.

    • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Not only is it open, but you can check it out yourself and install right from source if you really want to get under the hood.

      I’ve seen folks out there running a 1-person masto instance, just so they can partake in the fedi from their own fully sovereign platform. Bit extreme for me, but cool that it’s an option. Definitely not just another FB in other words

      EDIT: Oh dang there’s a one-click app on DO even.

      • theanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This is why it’s not being downloaded. It has terrible reviews it’s a 3.5 out of 5. You don’t think it but people care about that.

        I have never tried Mastadon. Normally if a company is good it has great marketing as well as great direction, even if it’s a nonprofit. For instance, federation can never work for growth because it’s like operating a franchise. The owner of Mastadon doesn’t give his franchisees any cut. If he did they would bend over for him to grow their instance. It’s actually a new concept that is pretty smart but not executed well. Think I will copy it for Tiblur.com. Right now Mastodon is just a non profit version of McDonalds which all but ensures instance owners will lose their shirt if something bad happens on their instance and they are sued. Corporate structure is the only way. Just don’t build a shitty company. Also, why isn’t mastodon homie asking for peoples contacts, that’s how any app grows. You can do what FaceBook and Instagram do but just dont be a shit.

        • PlutoParty@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          What is why it is not being “downloaded”? It seems you don’t actually understand how it works. You realize we are talking on a federated network right now, yeah? You must be trolling.

              • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                Of course they won’t. They’re shilling their own product which is a competitor to Mastodon.

                • Little1Lost@lemmy.zipEnglish
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  but it is under the: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 Permissions of this strongest copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. When a modified version is used to provide a service over a network, the complete source code of the modified version must be made available.

                  So he cant revoke anyone of using the software he contributes

                • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  It seems like you’re deliberately misrepresenting, but I’ll explain anyway because I know that some people might be confused.

                  The Mastodon app is a client on your phone which accesses servers in the network.

                  The network consists of multiple servers that are interconnected to each other. Content from one server is automatically cross-hosted to other servers when it is discovered on those other servers. That’s how Federation works. I know it’s probably an oversimplification of how activitypub works, but it’s generally good enough for most people, and the important part is really that content is present and visible on other servers.

                  When you sign up to a server your account is stored on that server, the posts that you make are stored on that server, as well as automatically cross hosted to other servers which have people following you.

                  If the owner of a server pulls the plug for whatever reason the content on that server will no longer be directly accessible, if your account is there you will lose your account. The copies on other servers will remain as they have been copied. The rest of the network will continue operating without that server and the accounts that were hosted on it.

                  About asking whether or not an instance owner can sue instances they don’t like, that sounds like absolute nonsense and I’m not even going to bother trying to understand whatever point you’re trying to make with this.

            • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Since you appear to be talking about a Mastodon mobile app and not the Mastodon network a fair bit of negative reviews are about many of the mobile apps blocking access to Gab. Gab switched to a Mastodon back end back in 2019 or so and several of the apps started to blacklist using that instance at the app level as a consequence. Usually negative reviews about that will refer to “the largest Mastodon instance”, which Gab actually was by sheer numbers.

              There was even an issue request to hardcode blacklisting Gab into the backend, though they were basically told no in no uncertain terms.