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Bluesky finds with growth comes growing pains — and bots
AP ^ | 12 22 2024 | ALI SWENSON and BARARA ORTUTAY

Posted on 12/22/2024 7:37:42 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk’s X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given its owner’s support of President-elect Donald Trump, or wanting an alternative to Meta’s Threads and its algorithms.

The platform grew out of the company then known as Twitter, championed by its former CEO Jack Dorsey. Its decentralized approach to social networking was eventually intended to replace Twitter’s core mechanic. That’s unlikely now that the two companies have parted ways. But Bluesky’s growth trajectory — with a user base that has more than doubled since October — could make it a serious competitor to other social platforms.

But with growth comes growing pains. It’s not just human users who’ve been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division or direct users to junk websites.

SNIP

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bluesky; bots; fafo; internet; socialmedia

1 posted on 12/22/2024 7:37:42 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Wait, they’re telling that bots direct users to junk websites? Get outa town!


2 posted on 12/22/2024 7:39:16 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I’m sure we can rely on AP to tell us what is happening at blue cesspool.


3 posted on 12/22/2024 7:45:20 PM PST by iamgalt
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To: yesthatjallen

“These are not the Bots you should be looking for!”


4 posted on 12/22/2024 7:45:24 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

clapping happily


5 posted on 12/22/2024 7:48:55 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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To: yesthatjallen

Twitter 335.7 million users. Twitter has 251 million daily users as of Dec 2024

Bluesky (The Alt Left echo chamber site) any where from 1 to 10 million daily users out of 25 million registered users as of Dec 2024.


6 posted on 12/22/2024 8:01:33 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: MNJohnnie

How many Bluesky users have already been censored and canceled?

It is a circular firing squad—shooting bots and humans with equal fervor.

:-)


7 posted on 12/22/2024 8:08:24 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: yesthatjallen
also bots, including those designed to create partisan division or direct users to junk websites.

Sounds like the AP is describing itself, along with the rest of the legacy media. (See Tagline.)

8 posted on 12/22/2024 8:12:21 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: MNJohnnie
"Bluesky (The Alt Left echo chamber site) any where from 1 to 10 million daily users"

I believe it's clear Bluesky has peaked with users. There won't be much growth other than bots and if they work to get rid of bots their daily user numbers will fall.

9 posted on 12/22/2024 8:20:29 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

When I first read “Bluesky,” I thought it rhymed with “brewski.”


10 posted on 12/22/2024 8:46:40 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: yesthatjallen

And the sooner Bluesky falls, the better.


11 posted on 12/22/2024 8:49:23 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: yesthatjallen

An article yesterday said BlueSky is getting filled with porn.


12 posted on 12/22/2024 9:13:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: yesthatjallen

they no doubt sold the rights to various A.I. start ups to scrape info for large language model training.


13 posted on 12/22/2024 10:32:50 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: yesthatjallen

Nice work on Promoting that place OP!


14 posted on 12/22/2024 11:24:35 PM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: yesthatjallen

But they already have the DU echo chamber why do they need another?


15 posted on 12/23/2024 1:51:38 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Fiji Hill

As it should, comrade! Blue-ski.


16 posted on 12/23/2024 2:39:41 AM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“An article yesterday said BlueSky is getting filled with porn.”

Good... I hope they get busted for child porn. They don’t have the sense to restrain themselves. They think it should be a legal right. They will step on their own arrogant toes at some point.


17 posted on 12/23/2024 5:28:47 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: yesthatjallen

Bluesky is for radical leftists who never want to hear a different opinion than their own.


18 posted on 12/23/2024 8:22:09 AM PST by oil_dude
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