Bluesky has recorded an addition of over 1M users since it opened up public access.
The app gave this update in an X post on its page today welcoming its 1M+ new users.
Bluesky became open to all public registrations on 6 February 2024, after almost a year as an invite-only app.
The platform shared in a post earlier, a stat image showing the increase recorded in 24 hours of being open to the public.
According to the post;
• 850k+ new users have signed up
• Averaged 8.5 new accounts/second
• 2M posts were created in the last 24 hours”
Before opening to the public, the platform had about 3 million sign-ups which has now crossed the 4 million mark.
How Bluesky runs
Bluesky is a decentralized microblogging platform.
It has a Twitter-like user interface but offers algorithmic choice.
Founded by former Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, Bluesky is designed to be a Federated setup with community-specific moderation.
This means users can take advantage of Bluesky’s customizable moderation tools to determine what online safety means to them. The Social network uses the AT protocol, an open source framework built by Bluesky .
With the AT Protocol users can;
- Connect with anyone on any service that’s using the AT Protocol.
- Control how they see the world through an open market of algorithms.
- Change hosts without losing their contents, follows, or identity.
Bluesky runs in a way that people outside of the company have transparency into how it is built and what is being developed.
What is coming?
The company has shared that it will introduce an experimental version of open federation later in the month.
This version will give developers freedom to build their own separate servers, so Bluesky users will be able to choose what server to use.
Users can change their minds and migrate to a different server without losing all of their posts, followers and following list.
Another upcoming update will allow individual users or organizations to create their own content moderation services, which other users can subscribe to.
Explaining this in a blog post, the platform wrote;
“For example, a fact-checking organization can run a labeling service and mark posts as ‘partially false,’ ‘misleading,’ or other categories. Then, users who trust this organization can subscribe to their labels. As the user scrolls through the app, any labels that the fact-checking organization publishes will be visible on the post itself.”
Bluesky is accessible via apps for iOS and Android.