- i like bluesky. it’s good that bluesky shuns nazis and transphobes. not every platform needs to be for everyone. but imho a social media analyst getting dogpiled on here for doing social media analysis is the kind of thing that turns a lot of (reasonable, non-bigoted) people off from this place
- Bluesky has a growth problem Bluesky has hit 38M monthly users, up 8M since March Once adding 5M users per month, it’s now slowed to 1.6M. A 60% drop But post volume is falling—more users, less activity It risks becoming a ghost town with a loyal but shrinking core #bluesky #fediverse
- as usual, some of it is reasonable pushback that raises some fair points about the drawbacks of capitalism’s hyperfocus on growth, etc. and then a bunch more is angry people finding their latest target to unload on in ways wildly disproportionate to the perceived offense
- especially shitty to jump on someone like Matt who has been covering this stuff for absolutely ages nowAug 7, 2025 17:13
- yeah. i understand some people may see it quote tweeted into their feed and assume it’s from a bad faith troll. and then jump on it with their own assumptions, knowing everyone here will loudly agree. but that dynamic is also sort of the root of the problem i’m describing
