"Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding.
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"Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now."
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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"Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now."
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
"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)
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"Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now."
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
@stefan bain capital crypto lmao. what a sinister series of words
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"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)
@stefan Wait. Daily users one million and change? But that's not much more than we've got here in the fediverse...
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@stefan Wait. Daily users one million and change? But that's not much more than we've got here in the fediverse...
@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!
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@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!
@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.
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@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.
@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.
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@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.
@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.
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@stefan bain capital crypto lmao. what a sinister series of words
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@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.
@stefan (plus I'm always curious as to how fedidb deals with vastly defederated servers)
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"Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now."
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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"Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now."
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
@stefan
Bain Capital Crypto lol -
"Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now."
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
And the reason this was only disclosed now?
"busy building!"
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And the reason this was only disclosed now?
"busy building!"
Baloney. Enough lies.
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"Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now."
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
@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.
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@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.
@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!
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@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!
@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.
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"Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now."
Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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@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.
@lexinova Yeah, there are some ideas worth stealing, but definitely continue to root for the fediverse. Onwards!
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@katzenberger I think we're going to find out soon.
