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Bluesky falls below 5 million monthly active users, marking a 67% decline

Almost exactly one year after peaking at 15.12 million monthly active users, Bluesky’s long-running decline has pushed the platform below 5 million MAUs. The latest figures show a loss of about two-thirds of its peak user base.

Source stats: https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky/_users/_total.html

@bluesky #blueskystats #bluesky #opensocialweb #fediverse #statistics

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[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think a lot of people are swearing off the internet altogether, it's become a terrible place. Lots of paywalls and garbage.

[–] Fancy_Gecko@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

and its mostly bots

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm OOTL. Did something happen?

[–] ikuturso@mastodon.social 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

At least a couple of factors. The first major thing is that It seems like many people are no longer really moving away from X no matter what Elon does or to the extent they do the hype for Bluesky may have died down so much that they go more to Threads. Ppl leave as the site slows down.

Another factor is a string of bad mod decisions and interactions that the BSky team has had with the community which has made people think they may not really be that much better than Meta or X

@200ok @bluesky

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Fediverse is dying as well.

https://fedidb.com/stats

People just don’t give a single fuck. I don’t think anything can move users away from them no matter what big social does.

[–] tefbo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

This stat page is awesome. It is OK if the fediverse does not grow all the time, I believe it is the future for me personally.

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

At least the fediverse will continue to exist because of its open and decentralized nature. It’s always aimed towards a more niche audience and tbh that is a good thing.

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Deralax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

I tried to like bluesky but I just found the content boring personally. It felt like 75% of the posts being served to me were unfunny liberal memes and the other 25% was people talking about X. I eventually accepted that it just wasn't for me after about a month and ditched it in favor of lemmy.