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[kentuck]

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[FirstLight]

1. ...any particular reason?

Did something happen to the x/Twitter to make people move over? Just curious...

[kentuck]

2. I wonder if that had anything to do with Musk decision to return to his day job?

Curious, indeed.

[sl8]

8. There was a large surge post-election.

Note the date on the post (Kentuck pointed it out, below)

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g-s1-34898/bluesky-traffic-surge-after-election

Traffic on Bluesky, an X competitor, is up 500% since the election. How will it handle the surge?

November 19, 2024 5:13 PM ET
Bobby Allyn

The day after the presidential election, the social media landscape shook.

On Elon Musk's X, more than 115,000 users deactivated their accounts, the largest-ever mass exit from the platform. At the same time, traffic on Bluesky, a smaller rival to X, began to soar, with daily usage climbing some 500% in the U.S., according to data from Similarweb.

"We've been growing by about a million users a day for several days," said Bluesky CEO Jay Graber in an interview with NPR on Monday. "It's proving out the model that we thought would be the right approach to social [media]: Give people the tools to control their experience and they'll have a better time."

Putting more control in the hands of users is what distinguishes Bluesky from X, formerly Twitter, and other rival social media sites.

[...]

Emphasis added.

[yellowdogintexas]

3. I have a question about Blue Sky: what do you do to just read the responses or comments

in a thread?

I have had issues with navigating it

[vapor2]

4. I had issues too but

click NEXT (blank space) to the message box and the comments will appear. Hope this helps

[kentuck]

5. I see the date at bottom of photo...

...is November 14, 2024.

I guess they have done even better than thought!

[Dave Bowman]

6. Eventually only magats and right wing pundits will end up posting on Xitter.

[marble falls]

7. And five million who tried to join and got frustrated and gave up.

[Celerity]

9. Why are you posting 6 and a half month old news as if it is current?

That post is from November 15, 2024.