"Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@Sarahp

"Bluesky has seen rapid growth from 13 million to, now, over 43 million global users"

Might be worth correcting this:

> active: 39,207,881

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 (@mackuba.eu)

I've done a full scan through all PDSes seen on bsky.network (listHosts and then listRepos everywhere), and I got such numbers: active: 39,207,881 (= meaning: repo is visible) deactivated: 427,544 taken down: 2,564,669 total: 42,200,094 so around ~1M would probably have been deleted. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Bluesky Social (bsky.app)

That is, the number of actual actively engaged users is far lower:

Bluesky User Growth and Active Users

See how activity and usage of Bluesky has been growing over time. How many users are currently active? How many posts are posted daily on Bluesky?

(bluefacts.app)

[christa@friend.camp]

@stefan bain capital crypto lmao. what a sinister series of words

[jorgecandeias@mastodon.social]

@stefan Wait. Daily users one million and change? But that's not much more than we've got here in the fediverse...

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@jorgecandeias That's our monthly, going by https://fedidb.com/stats.

Their monthly is 5.11M, so still quite a bit more.

But not impossible to catch up, given the trends!

[jorgecandeias@mastodon.social]

@stefan Ah. OK. Apples and oranges.

I'm curious as to our dailies, but I don't think there are stats on that. I have a feeling most people here (those that post, that is) post every day, pretty much. Now idea how that compares to the situation in BS.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@jorgecandeias Yeah, definitely would love to compare this!

But, and you probably already know, at least Mastodon servers only report the numbers for last month and past 6 months.

https://mastodon.social/nodeinfo/2.0

[jorgecandeias@mastodon.social]

@stefan Yeah, and some server types have very unreliable stats (or don't publish them at all), which leads me to believe the actual number of active accounts is larger, maybe significantly, than what fedidb says.

[aparrish@friend.camp]

@christa @stefan "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself in possession of $100 million of Bain Capital Crypto venture funding"

[jorgecandeias@mastodon.social]

@stefan (plus I'm always curious as to how fedidb deals with vastly defederated servers)

[albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz]

@stefan

Investment capital, 100s of millions, crypto, engagement. What could possibly go wrong with #bluesky

[botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org]

@stefan
Bain Capital Crypto lol

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

And the reason this was only disclosed now?

"busy building!"

Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team)

busy building!

Bluesky Social (bsky.app)

#bluesky

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@stefan

Baloney. Enough lies.

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@stefan when they will be twitter 2.0 i will say "told you so" to all people selling it as the futur.

bluesky is the past, from people fired from the original.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@lexinova The thing is, there is actually a lot of momentum in the overall Atmosphere, with Blacksky already running a fully independent ATProto stack. And Eurosky and Northsky are working on this as well.

Plus all the other ATProto apps.

I don't know. My one prediction I shared recently was, we could easily see a more diverse Atmosphere where people can easily migrate between PDSes and AppViews and what have you, by the time Bluesky does enshittify.

We'll see!

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@stefan for me the AT proto itself is CRAP.

and i hope this crap come down fast so we can concentrate on fediverse who is standardised contrary to this cheap FAKE decentralised system.

[katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org]

@stefan

Simple question:

What does one get, in return for $100 million?

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@lexinova Yeah, there are some ideas worth stealing, but definitely continue to root for the fediverse. Onwards!

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@katzenberger I think we're going to find out soon.

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@stefan the issue who make AT proto a crap is you cannot "just" join and make something that work alone and with them, or you need to copy the whole database.

the concept is plainly stupid and seem desined to "allow" decentralisation yet making it too expensive to actually achieve without them.