Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark

Short-form posting level Bluesky crossed the 15 cardinal personification people coming amid a caller surge of personification signups successful the aftermath of the US statesmanlike election. That’s according to a stat-tracking site put together by Bluesky developer Jaz, utilizing the Bluesky API.

The platform, which rests connected the decentralized AT Protocol, added astir a cardinal caller users successful the past week. Bluesky COO Rose Wang recently told The Verge that the “majority” of caller users flocking to the level person been from the US. The Bluesky app is presently astatine number 1 successful the iOS app store, followed by Threads, ChatGPT, and the Google app.

Meta’s Threads is still outpacing Bluesky, having precocious deed 275 cardinal monthly users and increasing astatine a complaint of over a cardinal signups per day. But Bluesky offers a very different experience. Both are ad-free (for now), but whereas Threads uses a azygous Meta-made algorithmic feed, Bluesky offers user-created algorithmic feeds successful summation to its “Discover” and “Popular With Friends” ones.