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.

Luu Tuyen@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

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.

mke@programming.dev · 22 hours 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”).