For a sense of perspective, Twitter has 106 million users in USA. 700 000 is 0.67% of that.
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I made an account yesterday to see how it is, however, I never used Twitter and so I don’t really understand how BlueSky works (since it suppose to be the same as Twitter?).
I followed 8 people and a couple of “#” but I barely see a thing of the people, I follow.
On Web and official app(android) there are two pages Discover and Following, by default you will be on "Discover" page. To see post from people you followed, you need to switch to the following page.
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We're seeing a substantial increase on the Mastodon instance I help moderate too, but there's no aggregate marketing department at Mastodon so we don't get any headlines.
I'm using both platforms through Openvibe when I'm on my phone.
Thanks for letting me know about this. Just installed it. Now if they supported multiple mastodon accounts, I'd really be cooking.
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Everything is better than Twitter I guess.
Is this running on a modified version of Mastodon?
And I still to this day don't get the appeal of the twitter model
Me neither, but I guess once you start following enough people, or the platform has a large enough amount of people posting there, it becomes "interesting" by quantity, if not quality.
I think I tried twitter for a week back in 2018, didn't "get it", deleted the account. Tried Mastodon last year, enjoyed the much larger character limit, but didn't feel like staying.
"The number of characters is limited based on old SMS standard! Lulz!"
Yeah, good way to have meaningful conversations where you can bring convincing arguments! /S
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BlueSky is its own thing with its own federated protocol called ATproto. They have an explanation in their docs on how it works, different features. There's a bridge between the two as well, a bit janky but effective.
So you can see mastodon posts on bluesky and bluesky posts on mastodon?
No, not unless the person whose posts you want to see opted into bridging their account.
If both parties bridge their accounts they can follow eachother, or if one person bridges their account others can follow them.
I don't think you can see boosts of stuff not on your platform though, and I don't know how interacting with a bridged account works if both of you are bridged. If only the person you're following is bridged they definitely won't see it, but I don't know if that changes if you're both bridged
How do you opt-in to that?
You opt in by following the bridgy fed account for your platform, so for Mastodon that'd be: https://bsky.brid.gy/bsky.brid.gy
There's one on each platform, and when you follow it it'll create you a bluesky/mastodon counterpart and send you the link to that bridged account
It's a federated protocol, but the network itself isn't meaningfully federated, and is basically just Bluesky (the company) infrastructure. Hopefully that changes, because until then, it's still a centralised social media platform, despite the underlying technology
They have no reason to change that. They will long term want the exact same thing that twitter has, access to all user data and control of the platform.
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