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Summary

Bluesky, a decentralized social media platform created by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has gained rapid popularity, adding about one million new users daily and reaching 16.7 million users.

Designed to resemble pre-Musk Twitter, it allows users to host data on independent servers.

Bluesky’s growth spiked after Donald Trump’s U.S. election win and backlash against Elon Musk’s X, which some call a “toxic media platform.”

Bluesky avoids traditional advertising and is exploring paid services for revenue but faces long-term sustainability challenges.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Important to note the Jack Dorsey is no longer affiliated with bsky. He moved on and they now have a team of 20 running bsky.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bluesky isn't decentralized - and might never get there.

setting up a Relay requires around 4.5 TB of disk space, and that it’s growing by around 18 GB a day

https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I’m in favor of things expiring.

[–] shortwavesurfer 28 points 1 day ago

Until there's more than one server, it is absolutely not decentralized and should not be thought of as such.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

To be honest, nearly everyone who uses Lemmy probably also uses Mastodon instead of Bluesky or Twitter. Edit: Or Threads. Completely forgot, that they also existed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I kind of use it, but not everyone is on it. I'd rather user blue sky than X, though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

I don’t use either, but I hated the Twitter format from the beginning, if I had irl friends on the federated Instagram replacement I’d consider it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In a hilarious timeline, xitter tanks hard and goes bankrupt. Then musk floats a stupid proposal to buy Bluesky that crosses legal lines and a judge forces him to buy it for way more than it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, in ours, Twitter has become an arm of the U.S. government.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

The Ministry of Truth

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

IT'S NAHT A TOOMAH!