I'm glad that Bluesky is seeing a boost in user registration and X is loosing users. Great news for the fediverse, even though Bluesky is fediverse-lite.
However, the editor that chose that headline should be fired.
The ambiguous wording and lack of commas for the "of unhappy x users" probably boosts engagement though. So I guess TechCrunch's bottom line gets boosted and they'll get praise instead.
Honestly it's probably better this way as Fediverse is likely ill prepared to host all these people. There's likely still a lot work to be done to make instances more efficient, scaleable, sustainable and easier to moderate.
I hadn't thought about that.. when there was an exodus last year or 2022 I think? Mastodon received a lot of users and mastodon.social temporarily closed sign ups, probably because of this. It's also a lot more convenient and easier switch to BlueSky, official app very Twitter-like web UI also Twitter-like, it certainly provides a more convenient switch to people who just don't to stress on the smallest things, also just create account with a default instance pre-selected (which a lot of those migrating there are confused why usernames contain the instance after the username). Pixelfed does a lot better in those terms comparing to what it aims to be an alternative of (Instagram) than Mastodon does with too many choices most people will be lost even more the people who know very little about tech and don't even know the difference of centralized and decentralized. I've came across this post on Mastodon (from another Lemmy post) which is very concerning though.. but again, these people won't care about that, it's all about convenience for most of them and BlueSky is doing it well.
Maybe those people should have done it when everyone sane did it: when musk bought it.
It’s hard to convince people to leave their doom scroller. It took some convincing to get me off Reddit. I should have come over here way earlier.
Yay, keep eff'ing up corp.soc.media. We'll gladly absorb your disgruntled users.
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