jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoJack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitterwww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down14
arrow-up175arrow-down1external-linkJack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitterwww.engadget.comjeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square85fedilink
minus-squareabhibeckert@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-28 months ago It just hasn’t hit that Twitter-level critical mass of users Twitter used to be bigger than it is now and it also used to have less spam. So clearly size isn’t the problem. The problem with twitter is Musk fired all the people who spent their day figuring out how to hide (or just delete) shitty content.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months ago Twitter used to be bigger than it is now and it also used to have less spam. So clearly size isn’t the problem. Twitter usage surged significantly prior to the Musk buyout. In 2010 they had 40M. They crested 400M users by 2020. That’s the difference between growing your base and harvesting them. Bluesky has in the neighborhood of 5-6M, by comparison.
Twitter used to be bigger than it is now and it also used to have less spam. So clearly size isn’t the problem.
The problem with twitter is Musk fired all the people who spent their day figuring out how to hide (or just delete) shitty content.
Twitter usage surged significantly prior to the Musk buyout. In 2010 they had 40M. They crested 400M users by 2020.
That’s the difference between growing your base and harvesting them.
Bluesky has in the neighborhood of 5-6M, by comparison.