Bluesky may only have a fraction of X's users but the social media site says it has seen a surge in UK users joining its ranks since Elon Musk commented on the riots.

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.

  • StreamwaveEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • blackn1ghtEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

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

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

      • StreamwaveEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

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

  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    31·
    4 months ago

    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.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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