[pathless]

I forgot about BlueSky since, around ~2 months ago, every last person I followed on there moved back (reopened) to Twitter due to the user number falloff... I am so out of the loop now

[croon]

I guess the people I follow either don't care about the numbers or didn't have that issue, but I'm finding more and more of the people I wanted to read from there everyday, and am enjoying it so much more after a year of engagement bait (or worse) on X. Bluesky to me is what Twitter was a few years ago, which (IMHO) is great.

[microtonal]

I think it really depends on the communities you are in. I use Bluesky mostly for ML stuff and Mastodon for more Unixy stuff and my Bluesky feed is quite lively with a good signal/noise ratio. I completely nuked my X account over a month ago, it was just drowning in ragebait and Elon posts (even though I don't follow Elon).

[irelephant]

Thats interesting, I have always got far more engagement on Bluesky than Twitter.

[toomuchtodo]

They just crossed 33M users. Maybe your microcosm?

https://blueskyusercount.com/

[jazzyjackson]

Active monthly is probably a tenth of that. I've made an account 2 or 3 times over the years but never find much to make me stay, I think I delete my accounts tho so I don't know if I'm in that stat.

[harvey9]

Depends on who you interact with. Some self-declared twitter-leavers never really left, others absolutely did.

[melodyogonna]

Twitter is very usable once you block Elon and the unhinged conspiracy accounts that he retweets.

[irelephant]

Its like a hydra - more weird accounts pop up despite me blocking every one similar and pressing "not interested".

Never had a similar problem on Bluesky.

[ivewonyoung]

I frequently have the opposite problem where the algo is pushing liberal accounts tweeting $OUTRAGE_OF_THE_DAY