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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not enough people on Mastodon are into the things I was using Twitter/use BlueSky for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's regular critical mass problem. The real question is why the Xitter exodee didn't make it to mastodon in the first place?

When I investigated, I didn't get past the account creation stage. Because each server is its own fiefdom and your account will largely be prisoner there, the more you get tangled on it, the more you become subject to its rules. I found that unacceptable.