Bluesky Adds New Notification Options, Including for Specific Accounts

[Slix]

Given screenshots of Bluesky and X side-by-side, can anyone tell which is which? Can anyone even tell they aren't the same app?

I don't think this is an issue with all social media apps looking the same... I can tell them apart from Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat or TikTok or Discord or Reddit. Bluesky looks like such a complete rip-off of X that it looks like they're pleading to be sued - they want the publicity that would come with it.

X has view counts and Bluesky has URLs for usernames. X also has a ton of other things in each post now compared to when it was Twitter like Grok... Despite someone wanting to "simplify" the layout back when he took over. That's all not to mention that X doesn't let you see just about anything anymore without logging in.

What amount of control

Blocking actually blocks users that you don't want to see (preventing people from seeing your posts altogether and not allowing them to reply or anything). You can untag yourself from a quote post so you don't get dunked on. Feeds let you customize what you see at any given time and how it's displayed to you. For example, I have a feed that shows me recent posts about Pokemon. But I don't have to have that shoved into my "main" following feed if I don't want to follow those people.

 

[Anijake]

Where’s the iPad version?

 

[jimmy_john]

Most people seem to be returning to X.

Not at all.

 

[Plutonius]

Not at all.

The number of registered users is increasing but everything else seems to be decreasing.

Bluesky User Growth and Active Users

See how activity and usage of Bluesky has been growing over time. How many users are currently active? How many posts are posted daily on Bluesky?

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[Matz]

Well, apparently I haven’t been missing anything of substance by not subscribing to either of those social media platforms. Good to know.

 

[Jdshewman]

Spending a day on Bluesky is like spending a day in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

 

[CEmajr]

A temporary knee-jerk reaction to Musk. Now most people are back to just using Twitter.

 

[ikir]

All three users of the app will be very happy

In my experience is very active and you get the major news in real time. It has 37M users.

 

[svish]

Good to know about this. But I don't use the app. Not sure how many are actively using it. Think it was a bit more popular around the time Twitter/X was sold.