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MilnerRoute
Just to clarify... The article says "Bluesky claims one million users joined the platform in one day this week." I'm not sure it was today. (There might've been a spike earlier this week that has since started slowing down.)

But what's more important is how the article also mentions Mastodon (plus Threads, Discord, and other alternatives.) I really think what this all points to is a growing need for fediverse-enabled social sites...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

[dead] the_third_wave
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chomp
I don’t want anything except posting with my friends and CNCF crowd without having to deal with the worst people in my feed. If someone tells me to kill myself because I posted about inclusive tech, I want the report dealt with. If I reply to an open source maintainer, I don’t want to have to also see people calling them awful names just because they may be trans. I want to be able to block the worst people who gripe about genetics and technical acumen. And I definitely do not want Elon injected into my feed. You can’t virtue post about hosting differences of opinion here. This isn’t “well, I like Python and don’t like your Node.js but I’ll fight for your right to hold your opinion.” This is (should be) objectively vile stuff.

Bluesky gives me all of this. X is a chore.

happytoexplain
Why write in this style on HN? It's demoralizing. Avoiding this is why I don't use social media in the first place (regardless of hypothetical political bias).
blastonico
Koo, Threads, Mastodon, and now the new X killer is Bluesky. What's next?

Suggestions:

  - x++

  - y

  - x#

  - X rewritten in Rust
nathanaldensr
Just because people are joining Bluesky doesn't mean they're leaving X.
Zigurd
Technically correct, but on Bluesky there are lists of the kind of people who. like what X has become, so that they can be blocked en masse.
pms
Why this got flagged?