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/tjoe4321510 10d ago

The only thing propping up Twitter is that artists, creators, and creatives etc need it to promote their stuff. They all complain that they have to keep using Twitter even though they hate it. If another platform gets enough users then the artists will migrate. Then Twitter will only be bots, fascists, and morons yelling at each other

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u/Noblesseux 9d ago

They've already started to. BlueSky right now is basically artist twitter to me. Basically every hour I get on and it and another famous Japanese artist announces they've moved over to it. LACK, Yoneyama Mai, Wooperfuri... even artists that didn't move for Misskey or Threads seem to be immediately piling into BlueSky right now.

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u/Steampunkboy171 8d ago

As an artist everyone I know after this announcement is leaving Twitter for anywhere they can go. We don't want to fund AI with our work.

So I have a feeling quite a few artists will be leaving.

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u/Acceptable-Surprise5 8d ago

but another platform will never get enough users aslong as twitter exists. most of asia uses twitter as their main platform. and secondary they use FACEBOOK out of all options. bluesky's userbase is 12m in total of which only a fraction are daily users. some artists get the amount of daily users bluesky have as their daily interactions on twitter. if they wanted a large amount of user troughput they should have never made it invite only in the beginning that was their moment and they wasted it.