On several Discord servers I’ve seen new rules posted outright forbidding linking to Twitter anymore. Both because of Musk’s Nazi salute and because Twitter/Musk has apparently basically stopped enforcing moderation against child porn. And Bluesky is regularly suggested as an alternative to Twitter.
I suspect that’s helping push more people to move to Bluesky recently.
It’s about one user per second at the moment and 280k short of 30M so maybe in three days if my calculations are correct.
A lot of sports subreddits are banning X links now including r/nfl. As the sports teams and leagues and writers move over, we will see another surge. The first one was mostly liberal news organizations and pundits.
The rate varies depending on time of day. It’s lower at night than during the day and you looked at night.
I just followed you over there
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I looked right before I typed it out. It’s at 1.9 now.
I’m enjoying being on Bluesky but getting overloaded on political posts. I’ve started a personal list of cat-centric accounts and will probably do another list or two for photography, archaeology and history, so I can take a break from politics when I’m there.
You can dig around in settings and find ways to hunt for various interests that you can put into a list for your account.
I’ve accumulated over 1.1k followers at this point, but don’t automatically follow back. I always check anyone who likes a post or follows me: hover my cursor over their avatar to check the profile that comes up; if it looks interesting, then click into their account and skim through their posts to see if they’re legit and someone I’d like to follow.
I am Janicket the So-So there.
Which is almost double the rate you posted last night. As I said, it varies by time of day.
OK, I was overoptimistic. It won’t reach 30M today. Maybe tomorrow or the next day.
Cool! I followed back if your initials over there are tpg. (If not, I need to look more closely at my notifications to be sure I didn’t miss you.)
That’s what I do, too. The Starter Packs are clearly good for Bluesky as they help it grow, but personally I prefer to deal with followers on a one-by-one basis.
That’s me! The one and only.
Oh, good.
I can identify with having differing names; for many years I had a completely different screen name on every site. But this time I just…carried over.
I don’t know why I use my name (and picture) on Bluesky but not here. I guess it’s to find friends, etc., there (and twitter, Insta, etc.)
And this one, which I’m sure you already follow, is the intersection of all of those topics.
Oh, yes, Cats of Yore I’ve followed since Twitter. You can also find Jorts (and Jean), Larry the Cat, Fishtopher and Friends, and others that I first came across BM (before Musk).