Even before the U.S. election sped up an exodus from the Elon Musk-owned site, X had reportedly lost one-fifth of its active users in the U.S. and one-third in the U.K.. Bluesky seems to have the juice to win over some of those fleeing users — especially journalists and others interested in news …
  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    6 hours ago

    Please stop calling them “apps”, they are websites or social networks that has an app.

  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
    141·
    11 hours ago

    Good. The more people leave the cesspit, the better off they’ll be.

    Inb4 some speciously-reasoned lawsuit from the “Department of Government Efficiency” comes for BlueSky alleging anticompetitive practices or something equally ridiculous.

    • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      11 hours ago

      careful, people on lemmy will attack you for saying anything other than bluesky is bad and that mastodon is the only way forward

        • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          41·
          5 hours ago

          Yes but my mastodon is either empty or full of Nazis until something gets banned. Threads is a bunch of old white dudes lecturing everyone about everything. On bsky I found most of the stuff I care about. Unfortunately that’s where people are going.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I think people have mostly given up on that, going from the posts I’ve seen. Like how most people will admit Linux isn’t for everyone.

        • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          The post about Stephen King moving to Threads says otherwise. But to be fair, it’s Threads and not Bluesky, which people here hate more.