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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. (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People been saying this for years since he took over and nothing changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nothing? Im as pessimistic as it gets, but it has provided traction for at least 3 competing decentralized alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I do think alternatives got traction, but I don't think any of them are anywhere near actually competing with X though. Perhaps it's the beginning of becoming a true competitor, but it's a long ride still.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Its kind of hard to say because I don't think X is giving out reliable numbers about their own monthly active users, so. ..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Similarweb can provide estimates, in October it it is 4.575B visits for x.com vs 75.87M for bsky.app . so about 1.63% of visits, so x.com isn't going away in time soon it seems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but I mean I've often seen people claim they leave X for something else, only for them to return a couple of weeks or months later again. This seems to happen with every new similar platform that pops up. It's just like Lemmy being a Reddit alternative, but it seems to forever struggle to take off, and it never quite feels like the amount of engagement you get on Reddit, just because everyone is staying there or returning there anyway.

I think it's mostly due to alternatives trying to copy the originals, instead of doing something new that could keep people interested longer to build up a bigger community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think it’s just that the majority of users don’t care what the platforms they use do, it’s just a vocal minority that complain about the issues and even fewer who actually try any of the alternatives