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Date: November 20, 2024 at 10:35:19
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Bluesky CEO: 1M people per day joining in past week |
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Bluesky CEO: 1M people per day joining in past week
by Miranda Nazzaro - 11/20/24 10:27 AM ET
The social media platform Bluesky has emerged as a popular alternative for users departing Elon Musk’s X and other platforms, with nearly 1 million people joining each day over the past week, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said Tuesday.
“We’ve been scaling up. There’s been about a million people joining a day for the past week, and we’ve just been telling people how it works, showing them how it’s different,” Graber said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.
“A lot of people are saying they’re having a lot more fun here. They’re having an experience where they’re making friends online again and talking to people. That is just something that they haven’t experienced in a long time,” she added.
The surge comes amid a mass exodus of users from X. Thousands of users, including well-known celebrities and companies, announced they were either quitting or deactivating their X accounts shortly after President-elect Trump’s victory earlier this month, citing a “toxic” or “disturbing” content environment.
When asked if Bluesky was intended to have a distinct tone and environment from X, Graber said, “Our goal is to give users an experience where they can have fun and feel safe.”
“So, we’ve already always focused a lot on trust and safety, making sure that users have ability to have an experience that’s free from bots and harassment and spam and then — that’s, I think, really core [to] the experience,” she continued. “But then beyond that, we want a place where people can express their creativity, and so they can come on and explore an ‘app store’ basically of all these feeds.”
Graber explained that users can subscribe to feeds they are interested in, comparing them to magazine subscriptions.
ddress from The Hill, Nexstar Media Inc., and its affiliates
Musk, who quickly became one of Trump’s most visible allies, has faced repeated criticism over the changes he made to X’s content moderation policies, which included the reinstatement of several suspended accounts and a scaling back of some moderation measures.
Coupled with his recent embrace of far-right views and sharing of some conspiracy theories, some users and media experts said X is no longer a place for balanced and accurate information.
Some have called X an “echo chamber” of right-wing ideologies. When asked how Bluesky will avoid becoming this, Graber said the focus is on “giving people a way to productively engage.”
“And so, making sure that it’s an environment where discussions can happen and people can have different opinions, but people aren’t getting harassed, and it’s a place where people can split off and form their own communities and it’s really up to the user on what they want to do.”
Bluesky was founded with the help of former X CEO Jack Dorsey. It was released as an invite-only app for iOS and Android users in early 2023. It opened to all users in February.
The Hill reached out to X for comment.
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Date: November 21, 2024 at 20:33:19
From: LaMan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Lol. |
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We send trolls to BS then they get banned
lol. It's hilarious watching our covid
Team Reality Dr's like Dr. B, er the new
head of the NIH, our freakin superhero Dr.
Bhattacharya.
He was holding the line as the assemblage
of MSM/pharma/gubmint forces sought to
ostracize him at Stanford, he was
marginalized, humiliated and generally
treated like shit.
Never saw this coming in 2021. Watched it
unfold live.
Dr. B will do us proper. He's a good dude.
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Date: November 20, 2024 at 16:38:41
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Bluesky CEO: 1M people per day joining in past week |
URL: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5000740-meta-instagram-threads-custom-feed/ |
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Meta’s Threads app launches custom feeds amid Bluesky surge
by Miranda Nazzaro - 11/20/24 4:56 PM ET
This photo, taken in New York, Thursday, July 6, 2023, shows Meta's new app Threads. Meta has unveiled an app called Threads to rival Twitter, targeting users looking for an alternative to the social media platform owned — and frequently changed — by Elon Musk. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
This photo, taken in New York, Thursday, July 6, 2023, shows Meta’s new app Threads. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Meta’s Instagram Threads began rolling out a new custom feed feature to give users the ability to build their feeds around the people and topics they are most interested in.
The feature was made available around the globe on Tuesday and allows users to search a topic or profile to curate their custom feeds. Users can now switch between the platform’s “For You,” “Following” and custom feeds by pulling down on the home screen.
The rollout came just days after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced last week that Threads was testing the new feature.
The feature’s rollout was largely seen as a way for Threads to keep up with microblogging platform Bluesky, which lets users build their own lists and feeds and set their own content moderation preferences.
Bluesky has experienced a surge in users this month, as prominent figures and companies announce their departure from the social media network X, owned by Elon Musk, in the wake of the presidential election.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said nearly 1 million users have joined the network each day over the past week. The platform amassed more than 20.7 million users as of Wednesday afternoon, according to statistics provided by Bluesky.
While Bluesky appears to be gaining traction, the network still has a way to go before it hits the usership levels of its competitors, including Threads, which touts more than 275 million monthly active users, according to Meta.
A spokesperson for Threads confirmed there have been more than 15 million signups for the platform in November, with about 1 million signups daily for the past three months.
Threads was released in June 2023 as a rival app to X, but within months its user base plummeted more than 80 percent.
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