On Bluesky, user numbers, and the silliness of endless growth.
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Watch BlueSky's user base grow in real-time. Innovative, decentralized social networking is here!
Bluesky now has more than 10M users | TechCrunch
Social network Bluesky said Monday that it now has more than 10 million users. This is largely thanks to the rapid growth of the network in the past few
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Your Internet Doesn't Need to Be Big - Aaron Ross Powell
But it definitely can be better.
Your Internet Doesn't Need to Be Big - Aaron Ross Powell
But it definitely can be better.
Building your own algorithm on Bluesky and AT Protocol with Graze
There's a pernicious belief, widely believed, that if a platform isn't on its way to becoming the biggest platform then it's on its way to failing. That belief is silly. So let's stop talking about Bluesky as if that belief is true.
We Needn't Have a One True Platform
www.aaronrosspowell.com"As a Bluesky user, you own your data and have greater control over the algorithms that serve you content. Also, the platform is extremely publisher friendly and aims to ... be a quality partner to high-quality news sources." Love to hear it, @sf.gazetteer.co sf.gazetteer.co/reflections-on-a-year-of-gaze…
over time as business models and extraction points move up and down the stack. i think em's answer might be the most realistic one in 2026-- the entirety the ATP userbase mandatorily moderated by (or acc to the standards of) bsky that thinks of it all as "bsky apps" is on the bsky platform, i think.
Tired of letting legacy platforms decide what you see? On Bluesky, you can reclaim your algorithm. Learn how ⇊
Reclaim Your Algorithm
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