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.

  • Natanael@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Bluesky has federation in testing in a sandbox open to external developers, already interoperating with 3rd party implementations

    • uis@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      has federation

      Hahaha, no. It’s like MTProto in Telegram, but without being honest that it’s centralized.

      • Natanael@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Every single component have 3rd party implementations or an alternative which doesn’t depend on them (standard account DID lookups go through their servers but web DID is fully independent). The options he says nobody will create ALREADY EXISTS

        The protocol literally doesn’t allow them to be gatekeepers.

        • uis@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          The protocol literally doesn’t allow them to be gatekeepers.

          Authentication is heavily tied to their servers

          • Natanael@slrpnk.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            You can initialize your account with your own DID key using web DID instead of the current (technically placeholder DID) and you won’t be dependent on their servers for authentication. Especially in the federation sandbox that’s available for 3rd parties

            • uis@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              From what you say I can approximate how it will go. First perpetual in-dev federation, then once they get enough people, they will say “not enough interest in federation” and stop development or pull the plug completely.

              • Natanael@slrpnk.net
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                3
                ·
                1 year ago

                Except federation is already functional with 3rd party implementations. Sure it’s possible they would choose to diverge in the official implementation in a closed branch, but that would not stop the rest of the clients from working. It’s like if the biggest Mastodon instance went proprietary and shut down federation, the people who care would leave.

                The main things they’re working on are moderation tools suitable for federation as well as scaling

        • Natanael@slrpnk.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          They have federation on in their sandbox network with 3rd party clients already working, but it’s not going to talk activitypub

            • Natanael@slrpnk.net
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              1 year ago

              Nostr is a wildly different protocol from atprotocol and activitypub.

              Activitypub is very much like email (SMTP) over http, pushing messages between servers. Atprotocol is instead using a model of a repository with profile and posts per user on federated servers along with aggregation servers (CDN-ish) and a pull model for retrieval. Nostr is a P2P protocol with “gossip nodes”

              • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                1 year ago

                Yeah, I more I learn about this stuff I can’t see the purpose of this new protocol versus the existing ones (not to even mention all the activitypub/fediverse spinoffs too).

                • Natanael@slrpnk.net
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Account portability for one thing, with accounts being defined by the DID and repository and not server name + path you can easily switch servers

      • uis@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        Everyone should defederate from bluesky

        They don’t use AP, so there is no federation to begin with.

      • Natanael@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah and also Gmail should defederate Skype.

        … Wait what’s that it’s different protocols? Oh well