Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.
Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform’s entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.
The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website “Bluesky Stats.” Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.
It’s impossible to know whether Musk’s comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.
Bluesky has federation in testing in a sandbox open to external developers, already interoperating with 3rd party implementations
Hahaha, no. It’s like MTProto in Telegram, but without being honest that it’s centralized.
Who the fuck cares? Everyone should defederate from bluesky the moment they get it working. Fuck. These. Fucking. People.
It’s not even Fediverse either. It’s their own protocol. Can’t even really federate much either.
That could change, like Threads. It’s important that we let it be known that the fediverse will not put up with billionaire dickholes.
They don’t use AP, so there is no federation to begin with.
For now.
They don’t intend do use open protocol. And it’s more centralized than you expect.