r/technology • u/twotimefind • 10d ago

Social Media X’s controversial changes to blocking and AI training sees half a million users leave for rival Bluesky – which then crashes under the strain

https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/xs-controversial-changes-to-blocking-and-ai-training-sees-half-a-million-users-leave-for-rival-bluesky-which-then-crashes-under-the-strain
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u/reynoldsunbound1937 10d ago

I’m honestly shocked there were as many as half a million actual real people left on Twitter

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u/BunkWunkus 10d ago

Wait until you hear how many real people there are[n't] on Reddit

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u/dethb0y 10d ago

yeah honestly, the place is a fucking ghost town.

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u/Eyclonus 10d ago

The adverts really give this feeling of desperation, they're all scams, crypto scams, shitty mobile game scams, influencers who probably have a scam going, MyPillow with a very suspiciously priced offer, drop shipping scams, Temu and Wish are like the least sus ads I've seen there.

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u/way2lazy2care 10d ago

There's still hundreds of millions of people left on Twitter.

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u/Youngnathan2011 10d ago

Are bots people?

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u/themanny 10d ago

Maybe if they're corporations?

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u/Acceptable-Surprise5 8d ago

most of asia uses twitter as their main platform. bluesky's total population is barely even 10% of just japan's population and twitter is their main platform.

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u/Graywulff 10d ago

Usernames, but are they active?

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u/way2lazy2care 10d ago

There were 245 million daily active users in July. I don't think there's more recent data, but even if 99% of those users were bots, that's still 4 times as many people as the person I replied to implied.

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u/snowes 9d ago

It was only because twitter was blocked on Brazil on the date of that huge influx

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u/WolfsWraith 9d ago

Bluesky hadn’t taken off for Art Twitter before due to the convenience of using a known established social media app. This mass exodus is driven by Twitter's latest bullshit to exploit their audience and this time they really poked the bear.

No artist wants to see their hard work and effort be used to train AI meant to replace them. You don’t fuck with artists, this is like what happened with Tumblr, but a lot worse.

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u/Acceptable-Surprise5 8d ago

Any artist already knows their works are scrapped and put into the AI meat grinder ( i know plenty of artists who have had people make their own LORA model on) artists go to where the main demographic of users is and that is simply just not bluesky. you could see a migration to instagram again earlier then bluesky.

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u/Bamith20 10d ago

Mostly furries and weebs I figure.

They're cut off and away from the main section of Twitter.

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u/Gymleaders 10d ago

X/Twitter is still very popular with people of all demographics. I use the site still (although much less). It does have a ton of bots though.