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Bluesky: Social media site reports surge in new UK users after Elon Musk's riot comments (news.sky.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Social media platform Bluesky says it has seen a surge in signups in the United Kingdom in recent days.

Since X owner Elon Musk made controversial comments about the riots in the UK, a number of influential figures said they would leave the platform or scale back their use, including home office minister Jess Philips.

Now, Bluesky says it has seen a 60% jump in general activity from accounts in the UK, with several MPs also joining the platform recently.

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"For 5 out of the last 7 days, the UK had the most Bluesky signups of any country," said Bluesky in a statement on Monday.

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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 32 points 2 months ago

They'll not learn.

I may be preaching to the converted but his about some Mastodon love as there are plenty of UK instances:

Not sure why there isn't a London-based Instance called Tooting.

[–] Streamwave@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Neither Mastodon or Bluesky ever really clicked with me, although I’ve tried and will continue to use both, but I enjoy using Threads because there’s so much cool non-political content there. My feed is archaeologists or astronomists, historians writers and photographers. It being able to connect up to the Fediverse is cool too.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It being able to connect up to the Fediverse is cool too.

Didn't a huge majority of the fediverse defederate from Threads?

[–] Streamwave@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah probably. Most ‘big’ accounts aren’t on Mastodon anyway though, they’re on Threads.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bluesky is amazing. I switched there from mastodon as the experience just feels better with a cool vibe. And it’s FOSS decentralised just like mastodon.

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I use it as well. People hating it completely is weird. I get that for profit is stinky but most people don't complain about that, they complain about it using a different protocol. As long as it is foss, (which it is) using a different protocol is fine, especially because their whole point of developing their own protocol is to achieve feature parity with Twitter

Edit: before anyone mentions, you can host your own bluesky instance now

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a link to a non blue sky blue sky instance for people to jon?

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I couldn't find one in my 10 second search. I think most are made for personal use.