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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)
submitted 2 years ago by geosoco@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.

Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform's entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.

The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website "Bluesky Stats." Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.

It's impossible to know whether Musk's comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.

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[–] PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social 69 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Google+ did the same thing when it rolled out, then they tried to force people to use it before they cancelled the project.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 51 points 2 years ago (16 children)

In fairness, Gmail had a similar invite system when it launched and that's been way more successful than G+

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Gmail was invite only at first probably because Google didn't want it to grow faster than they could buy hard drives. It gave you a gigabyte of email storage which at the time was huge. I'm certain they did that for technical reasons.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Might Bluesky be doing the same?

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Slow roll until the infrastructure can handle it and a little bit of that "exclusive" feel to it since not everyone can just join immediately.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

So more Gmail than G+

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah they're working hard on scaling, they've had recurring performance issues but have managed to get it stable again even with higher load now

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