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Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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208 points henrijn | 8 comments | 16 Nov 24 21:58 UTC | HN request time: 1.244s | source | bottom
1. countrymile ◴[16 Nov 24 22:35 UTC] No.42160001[source]▶
I've had an account for a few months now, it always felt very dead, but something feels like it's shifted.
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2. matsemann ◴[16 Nov 24 22:38 UTC] No.42160032[source]▶
My niche moved there summer of 2023, took some time to get going, some cross posting for a while etc, but by the end of the year it was almost exclusively on bsky.

But have noticed the uptick, gained like 400 followers the last week. But it's a bit weird, as it's a Norwegian community, no relation to American politics.

I guess it also can feel dead because it doesn't have a viral algorithmic feed like Twitter. But for me that's not an issue, ad even on Twitter I followed few enough people that I always used the chronological view.

But I do like the custom feeds of bsky. Like a search/hashtag on steroids, making it easy to discover others discussing the same theme I'm there for.

3. pfisherman ◴[16 Nov 24 22:40 UTC] No.42160046[source]▶
Agreed. I was on twitter to discover, share, discuss articles and talks in my field of research. A couple months ago I had trouble finding good accounts and content; but now I am starting to find some of the PIs I was following over on twitter.

Biosci twitter -> BioSky?

4. minimaxir ◴[16 Nov 24 22:40 UTC] No.42160053[source]▶
Because there was a certain geopolitical event about two weeks ago that was a primary reason many still used Twitter/X and now that said event is over (and whose outcome will likely cause Twitter/X to further degrade) there is no reason to stay.

The exodus is not happening randomly or in a vacuum.

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5. geoka9 ◴[16 Nov 24 22:49 UTC] No.42160136[source]▶
Or possibly, once the event was over, the users in question had the idea that Twitter/X affected the outcome in the way they didn't like and they decided to boycott Twitter/X?
6. ideashower ◴[16 Nov 24 22:54 UTC] No.42160176[source]▶
This plus the fact that starting Nov 15 tweets become by default training material for their language models: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-y...
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7. geoka9 ◴[16 Nov 24 23:00 UTC] No.42160243{3}[source]▶
In view of this news, the story becomes even funnier: https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spre...
8. ericjmorey ◴[16 Nov 24 23:16 UTC] No.42160405{3}[source]▶
All posts on bsky are public and subject to use for training machine learning models. So a lot of people either don't care or are going to be very disappointed.