Catching up with some of the news coming out of the Atmosphere conference.
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So, Bluesky is getting more crypto VC money, more AI, and a full year of steadily declining activity.
Bluesky User Growth and Active Users
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While the fediverse is getting quotes, UX/UI improvements, starter packs.
Hm!
@stefan Hey, they're totally giving the users what they want, it's just that all those users are the crypto/AI bros on the dev team who spend most of their time gushing about vibe coding and picking fights with anyone who calls them out.
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@stefan the goal of the fediverse doesn't have to be growth, one of the advantages of not being tied to VC funding. I would rather people engaged less here and more in real life, and this place helped with those connections, rather than try to coopt and monetise them.
I want fedi to grow but it's not a separate thing. It's an attention layer for the open web. growth here just increases the value of the commons, making it so the public decides what info, perspectives and art gets attention, not corporate algos. thus why the VCs have no interest in us.
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I want fedi to grow but it's not a separate thing. It's an attention layer for the open web. growth here just increases the value of the commons, making it so the public decides what info, perspectives and art gets attention, not corporate algos. thus why the VCs have no interest in us.
@wjmaggos @BenjaminKlein Agreed. I personally care more about growing the diversity and making fediverse safer for people who are already here.
I'm fine with growth in terms of number of users, I guess, which that might lead to. But don't see it as the goal myself.
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So, Bluesky is getting more crypto VC money, more AI, and a full year of steadily declining activity.
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?
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While the fediverse is getting quotes, UX/UI improvements, starter packs.
Hm!
@stefan I'm never concerned about daily active users. Fediverse is often quality over quantity IMHO
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So, Bluesky is getting more crypto VC money, more AI, and a full year of steadily declining activity.
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)
While the fediverse is getting quotes, UX/UI improvements, starter packs.
Hm!
@stefan been a few years now since I 'sacked' or 'fired' all the social media outfits and became a fedivers only bod. Best move online wise I ever made.
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@stefan I'm never concerned about daily active users. Fediverse is often quality over quantity IMHO
@art Agreed! Growing the overall diversity would be nice though.
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@stefan This is a cool site. Looking more closely at the daily metrics over the past year, it seems like it's flattening out. This makes sense, because I think a year+ ago, it was newer and people were still making the move over and trying it out. The growth they had at the start was never going to remain. To echo somewhat the points made in a few other comments here, that's probably a good thing.
@aaronmccollum @stefan Not to mention a one-time benefit from the (2nd? 3rd?) Great Twitter Exodus
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@aaronmccollum We have got to figure out how to get VCs interested in this place. There has to be a way.
@stefan @aaronmccollum All you gotta do is figure out a way to start selling user data and/or advertising
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@aaronmccollum @stefan Not to mention a one-time benefit from the (2nd? 3rd?) Great Twitter Exodus
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Catching up with some of the news coming out of the Atmosphere conference.
"With Attie, anyone will be able to build their own custom feed just by typing in commands in natural language, the same as if they’re chatting with any other AI chatbot."
I'm guessing NFT profile pictures are next?
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds | TechCrunch
Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
#news #technology #TechNews #atmosphere #ATProto #bluesky #AI #LLMs
The associated account is already second most blocked account over the past 24 hours.
Screenshot via https://clearsky.app
#bluesky #ATProto #atmosphere #AttieAI
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@alienghic It started to pick up again recently, might be going down a bit again, though.
Well. Nevertheless!
Active User Count for the #Fediverse has been hovering around a million since forever.
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The associated account is already second most blocked account over the past 24 hours.
Screenshot via https://clearsky.app
#bluesky #ATProto #atmosphere #AttieAI
@stefan
lol.
I looked at that yesterday afternoon and the blocked-by count was ~69k already, your post prompted me to check again and it's ~112k nowI wonder if it'll overtake the whitehouse & vance by end of play today?
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The associated account is already second most blocked account over the past 24 hours.
Screenshot via https://clearsky.app
#bluesky #ATProto #atmosphere #AttieAI
Incredible.
Confirming the results of a study from earlier this month:
"Only 26% of voters view AI positively, making it even less popular than ICE, according to an NBC News poll of 1,000 voters."
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@stefan
lol.
I looked at that yesterday afternoon and the blocked-by count was ~69k already, your post prompted me to check again and it's ~112k nowI wonder if it'll overtake the whitehouse & vance by end of play today?
@botvolution Hah, it's getting there!
Quite a self-own.
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@ricci.io Which, funny enough, actually tracks.
"Only 26% of voters view AI positively, making it even less popular than ICE, according to an NBC News poll of 1,000 voters."
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Active User Count for the #Fediverse has been hovering around a million since forever.
@juergen_hubert Yes, well, at least it's not declining?
There are some good updates coming soon, like starter packs (or Collections, as they call them here), more user experience improvements, better search and discovery via https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications
and https://www.fediscovery.org.Better moderation tools!
Quite the opposite of enshittification. So, I think there's definitely hope for the future.
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Catching up with some of the news coming out of the Atmosphere conference.
"With Attie, anyone will be able to build their own custom feed just by typing in commands in natural language, the same as if they’re chatting with any other AI chatbot."
I'm guessing NFT profile pictures are next?
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds | TechCrunch
Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
#news #technology #TechNews #atmosphere #ATProto #bluesky #AI #LLMs
@stefan
I knew in my heart Bluesky was secretly evil this whole time, I feel so validated to know they're using AI -
@stefan
I knew in my heart Bluesky was secretly evil this whole time, I feel so validated to know they're using AI@Shkshkshk They've been pretty open about being funded by the crypto industry in the beginning.
Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky
Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.
Bluesky (bsky.social)
But yeah, your hunch was right!
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Incredible.
Confirming the results of a study from earlier this month:
"Only 26% of voters view AI positively, making it even less popular than ICE, according to an NBC News poll of 1,000 voters."
@stefan Also depressing that out of millions of BlueSky users, so few block the alt-right as well as AI.
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@stefan Also depressing that out of millions of BlueSky users, so few block the alt-right as well as AI.
@Tock Most of them are not really active.
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