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Watch Bluesky's explosive user growth in real time

by TimCTRL on 11/15/24, 3:00 PM with 11 comments

• by jeffwask on 11/15/24, 3:21 PM

  Incredibly impressed with how this team of 20 has been able to scale with this explosion of growth. Early adopter and it's good to see BlueSky getting competitive in this race.

• by fallingknife on 11/15/24, 3:34 PM

  For comparison Twitter has 586 million MAUs. So Bluesky is at 3% assuming all those are active. In terms of HN posts over the last 3 days (excluding posts about itself) it's 47-2 in favor of Twitter. Which sounds bad but it's a whole lot better than the ghost town that is Threads which has 0 and way more "users." So definitely on a better than the last "Twitter killer" but I'm still not betting on it.

• by throwaway519 on 11/15/24, 3:21 PM

  A couple of years ago it was Mastodon with the explosive growth.

  RSS feeds everywhere please return. The distributed web, the federated web, a turning point. Perhaps.

• by roesel on 11/15/24, 3:25 PM

  Cool to see the growth. I have a minor suggestion: while the spinning counter showing "Estimated growth: 123.5 users since last update" is cool, it would make more sense to only show an integer here, since users can presumably only join in increments of 1 and not fractions.