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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by geosoco@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.

Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform's entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.

The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website "Bluesky Stats." Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.

It's impossible to know whether Musk's comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And Threads?

[–] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or Mastodon?

[–] transistor@lemdro.id 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, I also want to know how it is affecting the Mastodon user base.

[–] 73rdnemesio@infosec.pub 35 points 1 year ago

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount

You can see a spike in the last couple days. We went from about 30k/week to a 50k+ in this past week.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can check on fediverse growth anytime on fediDB, though not with daily granularity.

[–] ithas@artemis.camp 5 points 1 year ago

I found this which has registrations and posts for mastodon / fediverse over hour / day / week / month but it breaks it out by instances so can be a bit difficult to tell overall. Here's mastodon in the last 7 days for example.

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I'd bet mastodon saw an increase, but i haven't seen the numbers.

It's also hard to get a good count since it's not centralized. So whatever numbers we do see, could be wildly underreported.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://mastodon-analytics.com/

Although it looks like this is 3 days behind.

[–] Ktheone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount I discovered this after searching abit

[–] EtherealMoon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I refuse to touch anything related to Facebook. I'm shocked that people would use Threads or Instagram for that matter.