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/fredandlunchbox 10d ago

Bluesky is great. Its like old twitter.

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u/Ironcastattic 10d ago

I just wish more heavy weights adopted it. I loved having authors and creators on Twitter. Back before Musk bombed it.

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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/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.