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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No elon involved so it has an enormous advantage over Twitter

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Thats an advantage so thin it is almost invisible. Its a centralized platform, it could be bought by Elon or shutdown for whatever reason at any second. Being this shortsighted about the future of global communications systems is not a great idea when Trump is about to take office.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the same advantage all the other options have, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So you are of the opinion that the bluesky devs are currently lying about working to get it federated?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wasn't thinking about that at all, but they probably aren't trying very hard, if I had to guess. What's their current monetization model?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure. You can run your own instance right now so they have enabled that but you can't yet federate with the main instance. I believe you can store your own data in your own instance though but I'm not sure.