Bluesky is gaining 1000 new users per minute, a million a day. At this rate it’ll overtake X next year. Ok, I said “at this rate”. bsky.jazco.dev/stats - ThreadSky

jimalkhalili.bsky.social • 116 days ago

Bluesky is gaining 1000 new users per minute, a million a day. At this rate it’ll overtake X next year.
Ok, I said “at this rate”.

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

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mustard655.bsky.social•116 days ago

It will soon catch on to the coat tails of Voyager 2 'at this rate'.

jamesbottomley.bsky.social•115 days ago

Some kind of quantum thing presumably.

charlescharles.bsky.social•116 days ago

My hot take is that if Bluesky continues to expand at this rate, it will soon have the same problem with bots and general unpleasantness as Twitter does now. I can't see that its systems are sufficient to prevent that.

oceanbahamas.bsky.social•116 days ago

When you see trolls then do a troll alert, report then block. If we work together and all help block. Thats what we do on Threads. Report and block. .

hebejeebee.bsky.social•116 days ago

I just had a look at some of the controls in place and they seem quite well constructed. How they stand up to load testing in another thing though..

sacrebel.bsky.social•116 days ago

Find people you trust and subscribe and block their Moderation Lists

hebejeebee.bsky.social•116 days ago

Thanks for this. Time to familiarise with the landscape..

sttogether1.bsky.social•116 days ago

You can help to speed up the journey, let's hope the growth stays on the light side ........ ⭐

angharad.tech•116 days ago

https://xkcd.com/605/

elecnotes.bsky.social•116 days ago

Well I’ve joined today. One of the 1000.

ortgard.com•116 days ago

Well, when you do the calculus…

hairysteve20.bsky.social•116 days ago

In terms of real users much faster than that.
When you substract the sock puppets, bots, grifters, and assorted detritus I'm not sure what's left of twitter.
It's like a derelict house where 90% of the structure consist of cockroaches.

winstann68.bsky.social•116 days ago

Fingers crossed

verecopley.bsky.social•116 days ago

Good as long as the same amount of X user accounts are closed.

hebejeebee.bsky.social•116 days ago

Even just the reduction in activity would be enough to turn it into a ghost town..

simond1954.bsky.social•103 days ago

On my 1st day I got over 170 followers, so I am blow away.
Closing up my account on 𝕏 will be sad as I spent 5 years getting my digital twin to be like the physical me, but it’s like the aftermath of a party that went wrong, so I am off to BlueSky.

eggusmaximus.bsky.social•116 days ago

Will we then have to find somewhere else to go?

hebejeebee.bsky.social•116 days ago

I guess we'll see how well the controls hold up.

Given that most things eventually devolve into chaos, if the process can be slowed even just a little, then we could enjoy some peaceful and interesting and intelligent discussions for a good while..

oceanbahamas.bsky.social•116 days ago

If you run across any trolls block them. That’s how we keep Bluesky safe.

mark-edwards.bsky.social•116 days ago

I agree. It's an impressive rate, although it's a constant rate, but I'm afraid that you forgot the constant of integration.

miketonge.bsky.social•116 days ago

Yep.

But you'll still be you.

jmzed.bsky.social•116 days ago

Careful now

you're inviting a 'pile-on' from @timharford.bsky.social ...!

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