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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)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Bluesky is a lot easier to use vs fediverse stuff, discovering stuff is also easier in my experience vs mastodon.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    the problem is its easier to use because there is virtually no federation. Ive yet to see a user thats not from the flagship bsky.social instance

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Maybe you're already aware, but bluesky doesn't operate with instances like in ActivityPub land.

    I've seen many people I believe are using their own PDS, but yes, discoverability is likely better because a relay is meant to aggregate and share all data it can (look up "bluesky firehose").

    P.S. Mastodon's devs are part of a new initiative to improve this area of the Fediverse. Because it's so recent, we'll have to wait to see how it goes.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I just opened BlueSky to see how many people I followed using their own PDS instance and the fourth post in my feed was from someone using one, and the 7th was from Washington Post who also uses their own.

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