The platform crossed the milestone last night, and it happened about a month and a half after the 25 million mark. Bluesky still has a long way to go to pass Threads, though; Meta’s platform has more than 100 million daily active users. [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lgu4lg6j2k2v]
  • Uniformly9@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    22·
    5 小时前

    Because it isn’t just Twitter. Nobody can buy the network, the same way nobody can buy email.

    • Anyone can host a server.
    • Anyone can make an app.
    • Anyone can make an algorithm.
    • Anyone can make a moderation service. Users can freely pick a server, app, algorithm, and moderation service.
    • dnzm@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      1 小时前

      Yeah, no, not anybody can host a server. Sure, you can host a PDS, but the AppView still wasn’t open source last time I looked, and hosting a relay requires tens of terabytes of storage, not to mention the bandwidth to keep up.

      Meanwhile, people host actual activitypub instances on repurposed routers and their car entertainment system…