this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn I had no idea. What is so special about it? Is it federated?

[–] mingistech 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, just Mastodon pulls about twice those number in just a single week. Here are the numbers from just a few minutes ago. Image below.

https://i.imgur.com/YeqcK9x.jpg

[–] Hikiru 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once it’s out of invite only it’s very likely it’ll surpass mastodon pretty much instantly

[–] mingistech 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most normies have no idea what BlueSky is and they have no sister apps like Threads has to sling shot adoption.

[–] PsychoticBananaSplit 1 points 1 year ago

It will likely be all over the media when it opens though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It will be federated, but not with activitypub. It looks like they're developing a more comprehensive system for federation