Incredibly impressed with how this team of 20 has been able to scale with this explosion of growth. Early adopter and it's good to see BlueSky getting competitive in this race.
Cool to see the growth. I have a minor suggestion: while the spinning counter showing "Estimated growth: 123.5 users since last update" is cool, it would make more sense to only show an integer here, since users can presumably only join in increments of 1 and not fractions.
For comparison Twitter has 586 million MAUs. So Bluesky is at 3% assuming all those are active. In terms of HN posts over the last 3 days (excluding posts about itself) it's 47-2 in favor of Twitter. Which sounds bad but it's a whole lot better than the ghost town that is Threads which has 0 and way more "users." So definitely on a better than the last "Twitter killer" but I'm still not betting on it.
Threads never had a chance. No one wanted to hand Meta another community to exploit. I think the big difference this time is I am seeing a critical mass of big accounts start to shift with Major News Orgs, Kelsey Hightower, Emily Freeman, Steven King and others exiting Twitter. Tech BlueSky is starting to look a lot like what Tech Twitter used to pre-Leon. Content is king and content is moving.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 42.1 ms ] threadRSS feeds everywhere please return. The distributed web, the federated web, a turning point. Perhaps.