The platform crossed the milestone last night, and it happened about a month and a half after the 25 million mark. Bluesky still has a long way to go to pass Threads, though; Meta’s platform has more than 100 million daily active users. [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lgu4lg6j2k2v]
  • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    why are people frothing over Bluesky? this is just Twitter but owned by a different oligarch

    • Uniformly9@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Because it isn’t just Twitter. Nobody can buy the network, the same way nobody can buy email.

      • Anyone can host a server.
      • Anyone can make an app.
      • Anyone can make an algorithm.
      • Anyone can make a moderation service. Users can freely pick a server, app, algorithm, and moderation service.
      • dnzm@feddit.nlEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Yeah, no, not anybody can host a server. Sure, you can host a PDS, but the AppView still wasn’t open source last time I looked, and hosting a relay requires tens of terabytes of storage, not to mention the bandwidth to keep up.

        Meanwhile, people host actual activitypub instances on repurposed routers and their car entertainment system…

    • Spezi@feddit.orgEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Yeah, why would I use BlueSky when I could just use my favorite platform named Threads?

      Tap for spoiler

      Just kidding