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Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users

by mkeeter on 10/24/24, 4:53 PM with 30 comments

  • by Kye on 10/24/24, 7:29 PM

    I'm of course very skeptical more VC is a good thing and will continue using my profile on Bluesky to grow my newsletter[0] just in case.

    That said, if anyone can make it work, it's the team there. It's no accident the CEO was able to navigate Bluesky's exit from Twitter.

    [0] https://kyefox.com/newsletter/

  • by reducesuffering on 10/24/24, 5:17 PM

    There's been a large tech migration to BlueSky the past few days. Initially I was really excited as it was mostly high signal people, reminiscent of HN or early Twitter. However, I quickly encountered there's a large existing userbase that adopted it because of lefty / anti-Musk echo chamber views.

    Matt Yglesias, a milquetoast centrist liberal Harris voter, founder of Vox, had his comments entirely brigaded by leftists doxing his old house, threatening him with hammers, and the highest liked comment is: "matty i hate to break it to you but the majority of this website would chase you around with a shovel" https://bsky.app/profile/manateejay.bsky.social/post/3k7x4lk...

    You'd think if the milieu was intellectual, you'd have some reasonable debates about policy but it's all "gtfo" and threats.

  • by omoikane on 10/25/24, 4:24 PM

    13M+ users would put bluesky's user count above mastodon, according to this page:

    https://mastodon-analytics.com/

    I would be interested in some stats that compare the number of active users, and also number of users who actually made use of decentralization features (i.e. use a custom domain instead of bsky.social).

  • by add-sub-mul-div on 10/24/24, 11:55 PM

    I'm worried the need for growth will start to hurt what's otherwise still a good place. On the "Discover" feed there's an occasional carousel of accounts you're suggested to follow and being unable to turn that off is the first thing that's started to make it feel like the bad parts of the Twitter user experience.

  • by consumer451 on 10/25/24, 1:26 AM

    Related story:

    > Bluesky’s upcoming premium plan won’t give paid users special treatment

    https://www.engadget.com/social-media/blueskys-upcoming-prem...

  • by ck2 on 10/24/24, 4:59 PM

    There is a huge changeover now with academics switching to Bluesky

    I am finding many astronomers on there and other scientists.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-academics-x-elon-...

  • by fortyseven on 10/26/24, 5:06 AM

    And the cycle repeats, over and over... nah, I'm done.

  • by antomeie on 10/25/24, 12:04 PM

    They need to change their name so bad. Sounds like a Russian scam site.

  • by croes on 10/25/24, 10:38 AM

    > A financing led by Blockchain Capital

    Yeah, crypto bros.