This shows how bad threads is.
I sincerely doubt 1 million regular people a day are leaving Twitter.
We’re watching bot accounts be created at scale in real time.
I think “leave” is doing some heavy lifting, but I could see plenty of people creating accounts as the site reaches a large enough user base to attract the general public.
I saw a video recently of somebody talking about how they were posting the same thing on Twitter and Bluesky, and despite having a fraction of the followers on Bluesky, the post there had like 6x the engagement compared to Twitter. As they put it, “The creatives have moved to Bluesky.”
You underestimate the news cycle hitting regular folk who so far didn’t know alternatives existed to twitter.
3 more million needed for Mastodon, Threads and Blue Sky to beat Twitter.
How many does Threads have?
Threads has 275 million.
So basically … ah
So, you’re asking what the thread count is?
And they’re doing this…after the election too.
Brain lapses, people.
The “pseudo” federated platform. If it flops they will just tell everyone “federation s*cks” but BlueSky isnt federated at all
Please don’t swear on the internet.
My day is no longer fine
“Sucks” isn’t even a swearword! Are we jst going to strt censoring normal w*rds now?
You are probably right here in how news agencies and other competing sites would/might phrase it if BlueSky fails.
Though what bugs me and logically does not make sense (to me) is saying federation is what caused or could cause a site or service to fail.
Its like saying my new shinny website failed because of the Internet, the Internet must then be the problem.
Guarantee 99% of bluesky users have no idea what federation is
Nor would they care if they knew about it.
Most internet users have no idea what it is.
Then federate it.
