People are actually on BlueSky
There’s now a decent measurement of #bluesky user numbers (https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html) …
They’ve got about 1.6M MAUs …
& 0.8M Weekly unique users & 0.340M Daily.
That’s not nothing!
Roughly double mastodon and 60% more than the whole fediverse (by MAUs, see fedidb.org).
Bluesky is quite “international” with large Japanese and Brazilian popltns, and there’s real attrition happening IMO.
Still, let the protocol wars begin I suppose?
It’s crazy that people would rather migrate to a social media managed by a power hungry capitalist than to a “libre” platform
Fediverse isn’t intuitive
Is it really crazy? Most users don’t give a shit about the tech or politics, they just want to go where the people they are interested in are, and most of them don’t care either! Bluesky is actively promoting itself as the new old Twitter, so that’s where people who want that are going.
Majority are not too techy to understand fediverse, nor they really care of the benefit decentralization provides.
It’s unfortunate, but regular people don’t want to learn about new things and just want one platform where everybody is, basically “Twitter without Musk”.
Because it’s normal people instead of 100s of posts and Linux and thigh highs.
LOL this is the answer. For better or worse, the Fediverse has a large established culture. I would not fault someone for trying out every possible alternative first.
I have a mastodon and honestly, it’s hardly a replacement. different instances are far too isolated even when federating together. Finding user accounts is difficult, and basic stuff like seeing content on another instance is needlessly kneecapped compared to other ActivityPub stuff like Lemmy.
Most people dont give a fuck. They just want something better than X and popular. “Power hungry capitalism” doesn’t even cross their minds.
I agree, but I think it does cross the minds of many. They just still choose not to care.