I’m sure not many people noticed, but I left Bluesky. In fact, I left it quite a while back. Around the time I was thinking about reducing all the social media that I participate and consume. To be extremely honest, I was never happy with the platform. They made so many mistakes by restricting who could join. Their wait list. I kind of forgot it, but then I saw that Jay Graber was stepping down. She was the CEO of the company since 2021. Then I remembered that I left it.
“As Bluesky matures, the company needs a seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution, while I return to what I do best: building new things,” Graber wrote in a statement about the personnel change.
One of the reason I left Bluesky was the interaction. I’m not talking about engagement farming or views. Interaction with other users on the app. Not to mention that they shot themselves in the foot when the Twitter purge happened when users fled. They tried to join Bluesky but were met with a “wait list” screen. Which could explain why they sit on 40 million users.
When Meta dropped their Twitter clone, Threads, anyone could join. Which explains why it has roughly 400 million users, or approximately 10 times more active accounts than Bluesky. Although that isn’t the real reason. I used to post the same thing on both platforms to see which got attention. Some posts that got over 1k likes on Threads do a single thing on the other.
Bluesky is kind of boring.
It was one of the biggest reasons I left Mastodon. Both apps made it difficult to find new people to follow. I had some people follow me on Bluesky but they never commented or liked my posts. When I looked at their profiles, it appeared that they hadn’t been on for quite some time. Hell, I got more traction on Twitter without paying for it. That said something.
Many of the people I followed shared the same contents on multiple platforms. I get it, but it is what it is. For me, I only got 90 followers, which wasn’t bad. But I managed to get somewhere over 1450 followers on Threads. I have 28 followers on Twitter since I rejoined a couple of months ago. They are mostly bots, so I consider it zero.
They could’ve had more active users than Threads. But they shot themselves in the foot. Restricting new user access. By the time Threads received the lion share, they fell by the wayside. I know a lot of liberals like to use it but I don’t feel users are actively engaging. Unless they are already a major account. Again, it isn’t about just gaining followers, but it is about talking with like minded people.
If it’s working good for you… cool. There is no hate. This is an explanation of why it isn’t working for me. Maybe I’ll come back. I did with Twitter. But, I gave myself a five minute time limit, otherwise I lose my fucking mind.
